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THE NAZI DOCTORS:
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| The Auschwitz Self: Psychological
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certain circumstances as a theorist of limited nuclear
war. It is precisely his humane commitment to democracy and family life (his
prior self) that enables him to claim similar humanity for his nuclear-weapons
self despite its contribution to devices that could slaughter millions of
people. He can do what he does because his doubling is part of a functional
psychological equilibrium.72
In light
of the recent record of professionals engaged in mass killing, can this be the
century of doubling? Or, given the ever greater potential for
professionalization of genocide, will that distinction belong to the
twenty-first century? Or, may one ask a little more softly, can we interrupt
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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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