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| Dr Robert Jay Lifton |
THE NAZI DOCTORS:
Medical
Killing and
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Psychology
of Genocide © |
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| AUSCHWITZ: THE RACIAL CURE |
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| Even when the selection was only partial, as was more
usual, large numbers of patients could be doomed, as Dr. Adelsberger
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At about ten the Lagerarzt [camp doctor]
appears on a visit. “Achtung!” Jewish block with 68 patients!
The Lagerarzt has a long time for the block today and looks at each of
the patients separately. Those who can walk have to file past him. Those who
don’t march smartly enough, those with swollen feet or with superficial
sores, those who can't get out of bed, all these have their numbers noted.
After barely an hour, more than 400 numbers have been written down. When the
Lagerarzt leaves the block there is a paralyzing silence. More than 400
know that in a few hours time they will be transferred to another block where
perhaps many hundreds more are waiting ... a block isolated from the rest of
the camp where only the corpse bearers have entry, for the death that awaits in
the gas chamber has already stamped its irrevocable seal.22 |
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THE NAZI DOCTORS:
Medical Killing and the
Psychology of
Genocide
Robert J. Lifton
ISBN 0-465-09094
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1986 |
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