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 Dr Robert Jay Lifton THE NAZI DOCTORS:
                        Medical Killing and the
                            Psychology of Genocide ©
 
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Prisoner Doctors: Collaboration with Nazi Doctors 
 
received any orders and in that way anticipated the Nazis. These things we may consider as crimes….

Perhaps the doctor’s case is a little different because doctors are bound by their professional ethic, and physicians are people with higher education. But the cases of Dering and Samuel are different …. Dering obtained a certain position in the camp …. From Dering you could expect a certain ability to maneuver himself out of doing certain kinds of operations …. Samuel was a Jew, which meant a person 100-percent condemned to death in the camp. So he had the right to prolong his life — week by week, month by month.  
 
THE NAZI DOCTORS:
Medical Killing and the
Psychology of Genocide

Robert J. Lifton
ISBN 0-465-09094
© 1986
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