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 Dr Robert Jay Lifton THE NAZI DOCTORS:
                        Medical Killing and the
                            Psychology of Genocide ©
 
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Notes to Pages 95 114  
 
(The numbers in brackets refer to the original, complete citation of a particular reference in each chapter. The dates in brackets denote original publication of a title.)    
 
53. Klee, “Euthanasie” [7], p. 340. 
54. Ibid., p. 341.   
  
 
Chapter 4. “Wild Euthanasia”: The Doctors Take Over
 
1. Ernst Klee, “Euthanasieim NS-Staat: Die Vernichtung lebensunwerten Lebens” (Frankfurt/M.: S. Fischer, 1983), p. 440. 
2. Friedrich Mennecke, quoted in Alexander Mitscherlich and Fred Mielke, Doctors of Infamy: The Story of the Nazi Medical Crimes (New York: Henry Schuman, 1949), p. 116. 
3. See the case of Emma E. in Gerhard Schmidt, Selektion in der Heilanstalt 1939-1945 (Stuttgart: Evangelisches Verlagswerk, 1965), pp. 121-24.
4. Heyde Trial, pp. 83-86; Klee, “Euthanasie” [1], pp. 379-89.  
5. Mitscherlich and Mielke, Doctors [2], p. 116. 
6. Klee, “Euthanasie” [1], pp. 291-93, 341-42, 351 ; Eugen Kogon et al., Nationalsozialistische Massentötungen durch Giftgas: Eine Dokumentation (Frankfurt/M.: S. Fischer, 1983), p. 59. 
7. Klee, “Euthanasie” [1], pp. 329-30.
8. Ibid., pp. 429-30. 
9. Ibid.  
10. Schmidt, Selektion [3], pp. 129-31.  
11. Ibid., pp. 131-32.  
12. Klee, “Euthanasie” [1], p. 430.  
13, Schmidt, Selektion [3], pp. 130-32. 
14. Ibid., pp. 132-45. 
15. Testimony of Dr. Hans Gorgass at Hadamar Trial, Frankfurt, February-March, 1947 (4 KLs 7/47, Landgericht Frankfurt). This was the second trial of Hadamar personnel, held in a German court rather than under British occupation authority, and involving Gorgass as well as Wahlmann. 
16. Klee “Euthanasie” [1], p. 336. 
17. Ibid., p. 170. 
18. Hadamar Trial, especially pp. 162-63, 174-87. 
19. Weimar testimony in 1947 Hadamar Trial [15]. 
20. Wahlmann testimony, 12 October 1945, Hadamar Trial, pp. 162-63. 
21. Testimony of Heinrich Ruoff, 12 October 1945, Hadamar Trial, p. 176. 
22. Testimony of Irmgard Huber, 11 October 1945, Hadamar Trial, p. 119. 
23. Wahlmann testimony, 12 October 1945, Hadamar Trial, p. 163; see pp. 162, 247. 
24. Ibid., p. 167.  
25. Klee,“Euthanasie” [1], pp. 446-54. 
 
 
Chapter 5. Participants 
 
1. Michael H. Kater, "Medizinische Fakultäten und Medizinstudenten: Eine Skizze," in Fridolf Kudlien, ed., Ärzte im Nationalsozialismus (Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1985), p.123  
2. See Hans Buchheim, "Command and Compliance," in Helmut Krausnick et al., Anatomy of the SS State (New York: Walker, 1968 [1965)), p. 373.  
3. Sigmund Freud, Standard Edition of the Works of Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, ed. (London: Hogarth Press, 1955 [1923]), vol. XIV, p. 27n. 
4. Philippe Aziz, Doctors of Death (Geneva.: Ferni Publishers, 1976), vol. IV, p. 26. 
5. Ibid., pp. 14, 17. 
6. On Morell, ibid., pp. 48-52; Alan Bullock, Hitler: A Study in Tyranny (rev. ed.; New York: Harper & Row, 1962), pp. 718, 766; and Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs (New York: Macmillan, 1970), pp. 104-5.
 
THE NAZI DOCTORS:
Medical Killing and the
Psychology of Genocide

Robert J. Lifton
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