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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 114-124 
 
(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.)    
 
7. Aziz, Doctors of Death [4], vol. 1, p. 33. 
8. See Speer, Inside [6], pp. 330-32, 465-66, 576-77. 
9. Aziz, Doctors of Death [4], vol. IV, p. 14. Aziz claims to have interviewed a “Hans Kressier” in 1973. Contemporary documents referred to a Knauer infant.  
10. See Ernst Klee, “Euthanasie” im NS-Staat: Die “Vernichtung lebensunwerten Lebens” (Frankfurt/M.: S. Fischer, 1983), pp. 821-28, 424.  
11. "Affidavit of Eduard Woerrmann, 18 January 1947, concerning discussions of Karl Brandt and Pastor Bodelschwingh on Euthanasia," Nuremberg Medical Case, vol. I, p. 873.  
12. François Bayle, Croix gammée contre caducée: Les expériences humaines en Allemagne pendant la deuxième guerre mondiale (Neustadt [Palatinat]: Commission Scientifique Française des Crimes de Guerre, 1950), pp. 62-64.  
13. Aziz, Doctors of Death[4], vol. I, p. 16.  
14. Ibid., p. 248.  
15. Ibid., p. 252. 
16. Heyde, “Lebenslauf,” (autobiography), 1 January 1939, Heyde Trial, pp. 5-6; see also pp. 1-4. On Heyde's intelligence work, see Walter Schellenberg, The Labyrinth: Memoirs (New York: Harper, 1956), pp. 87, 91-92.  
17. Schellenberg, Labyrinth [16], p. 92. 
18. Klee, “Euthanasie” [10], p. 414.  
19. Pfannmüller, quoted in Gerhard Schmidt, Selektion in der Heilanstalt 1939-1945 (Stuttgart: Evangelisches Verlagsanstalt, 1965), p. 18.  
20. Pfannmüller testimony, 27-28 June 1960, Heyde Trial, p. 224; Hermann Langbein, Im Namen des deutschen Volkes: Zwischenbilanz der Prozesse wegen national-sozialistischen Verbrechen (Vienna: Europa Verlag, 1963), pp. 73, 170-71. 
21. Geoffrey Cocks, Psychotherapy in the Third Reich: The Goring Institute (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985), p. 97. 
22. Ibid., pp. 171-74. Stabsführer des Sicherheitshauptamtes Taubert to Reichsführer-SS, 6 February 1936; Oberführer Glatzel to SS-Personelkanzlei, 14 February 1939 (BDC: de Crinis). On the camouflaging of SS members involved in T4, see the testimony of Dr. Werner Kirchert, 2 May 1960, Heyde Trial, pp. 227-29. On the intelligence mission, see Schellenberg, Labyrinth [16], pp. 67-73. 
23. Schellenberg, Labyrinth [16], pp. 338, 387-88; Cocks, Psychotherapy [21], pp. 214-15; Gerhard Jaeckel, Die Charité: Die Geschichte des berühmtesten deutschen Krankenhauses (Bayreuth: Hestia, 1963), pp. 377-85. 
24. Cocks, Psychotherapy [21], p. 286 n. 93. 
25. Jaeckel, Charité [23], p. 385. 
26. “Walter Ritter von Baeyer,” in Psychiatrie in Selbstdarstellungen, ed. Ludwig J. Pongratz (Berne, Stuttgart and Vienna: Hans Haber, 1977), p. 16; Klee, “Euthanasie” [10], p. 203. 
27. Klaus Dörner, “Nationalsozialismus und Lebensvernichtung,” Vierteljahrsheftefür Zeitgeschichte 152 (1967):134. 
28. “Baeyer” [26], p. 16; personal communication. 
29. Klee, “Euthanasie” [10], pp. 396-401 ; Benno Müller-Hill, Tödliche Wissenschafi: Die Aussonderung von Juden, Zigeunern und Geisteskranken 1933-1945 (Reinbek b. Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1983), pp. 69-71, 169-74; documents on Schmidt’s research in BDC: Schmidt. On the use of T4 brains, see also Leo Alexander, "Neuropathology and Neurophysiology, Including Electroencephalography, in Wartime Germany," Combined Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee, Item 24, Medical (1945), pp. 14-22. 
30. Heyde Trial, pp. 339-411. 
31. Ibid., pp. 396-405.  
32. Eberl to Lonauer, 16 July 1940, Heyde Trial, pp. 404-5. 
33. Ibid., pp. 466-67.  
34. Eberl to Reich Committee, 10 September 1940, Heyde Trial, p. 483. See Klee, “Euthanasie” [10], p. 397, quoting Brandt on the “flight” of good physicians from psychiatry. 
35. Ibid., pp. 376-77; Adalbert Rückerl, cd., NS-Vernichtungslager im Spiegel deutscher Strafprozesse (Munich: DTV, 1977), pp. 208-9, 295; Eugen Kogon et al., Nationalsozialistische  Massentötungen durch Giftgas: Eine Dokumentation (Frankfurt/M.: S. Fischer, 1983), pp. 162, 180-82.
 
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Medical Killing and the
Psychology of Genocide
Robert J. Lifton
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