The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
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The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
Robert Jay Lifton
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A brilliant analysis and history of the crucial role that German doctors played in Nazi genocide.

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5 out of 5 stars "Physician, Heal Thyself" The Nazi Doctor and the Holocaust.......2005-05-24

In this detailed and well-researched account, psychologist Robert J. Lifton chronicles the Holocaust from a unique perspective: the role played by Nazi medical doctors. In doing so he explains the Nazi philosophy that formed the basis for mass murder: the necessity to heal the ills of German society by eliminating all its corrupting influences. Healing was and is the raison d'etre for the medical profession. Doctors were thus compelled to become killers in the application of this all encompassing "cure."

Lifton traces the evolution of the Holocaust beginning with the "euthanasia" projects of the 30's. Anyone incapable of being a productive member of society was consided, "life unworthy of life" and euthanized. Initially this was confined to the mentally challenged and the old/infirmed. Later even severely wounded German soldiers were not spared. Execution technology perfected here formed the basis for the mass executions conducted later.

Lifton interviews many physicians in this work including some former Nazi's and many Jewish doctors forced to work at Auschwitz. Here, the inner conflicts of persons trained to heal but actively involved in killing reached its apex. Reactions varied from the cold, view of inmates as "laboratory rats" and nothing more by Josef Mengele, to the tortured acceptance of the necessity of doing his duty of Eduard Wirths. Coping mechanisms included sending others to do the "dirty work" when possible, excessive use of alcohol, and in some cases, suicide. Still, the work went on, despite any internal contradictions.

This is the first work I have seen that explained the Nazi philosophy and its impact on the Holocaust. Because it was the stated goal of National Socialism to cleanse German society of all its ills, the participation of healers was essential. The Nazi's never wavered in this twisted belief. Would the Holocaust have occurred without the doctor's participation? Undoubtedly, yes! However doe's this excuse their participation? You the reader must decide. A great read. Five stars!!

Harold Y. Grooms

5 out of 5 stars In our own time..........2005-03-14

This book is relevant to our nation and society in the present time. With the Terry Schiavo case in the forefront of the news, one can only reflect on the position of the courts, and the doctors, in Germany in the 1930's. The book carefully shows the slippery slope which can confront a society that fails to protect the least among us. It is not a book about another place and another time. It is a book about us, in our own time. Strongly recommended that one reads this with open eyes and and open heart to the decisions we make today.

Robert W. Smith, MD, MBA

4 out of 5 stars Fascinating.......2005-01-11

This is a fascinating look not only at what the Nazi doctors did during the reign of the Third Reich but also how they perceived what they were doing and the legislative precedents that culminated in the general acceptance of medicalised killing by many German doctors.

The book is easy to read. Whilst it is a factual account, it still flows with the continuity of a novel making it hard to put down.

Informative and fascinating. Well worth a read and makes you realise the importance of global medical ethical debate as its absence in pre-war Germany, most certainly contributed to the precedents that allowed legalised genocide.

5 out of 5 stars Fascinating insight into the darkness of war........2003-12-22

Fascinating looks at the psychological make up of some of the most infamous people who, in absolute hatred of Jews and other so called undesirables, committed unforgivable crimes against humanity during the Second World War. The author gives a good case study of each of these doctors, and attempts to give an explanation as to why they believed their experiments were in the name of medical research. Chilling but real.

3 out of 5 stars Not deep enough.......2003-07-20

This book is based on direct interviews with a number of Nazi Doctors, but rarely quotes from them. It covers a wide range of issues, but delves deeply into few of them.

It purports to be a pyschological insight into why the Nazi doctors did what they did, and how the psychological mechanisms worked that allowed them to operate. Though Lifton is a Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, I didn't find his explanations particularly insightful. He repeats a few key ideas often, without going into how these mechanisms work. Instead, he fills the book with detail of what they did.

On balance, it added little to my understanding of the subject. The detail of what the Nazi Doctors did is readily available elsewhere.

I was hoping to find first hand accounts, of which very little was included, and psychological insights. Perhaps it would have been more useful if he had covered fewer people and situations in more depth, with more analysis.

He actually spoke to these people, but the book mostly reads as drily as any history book.

Disappointing.
A Mind in Prison: The Memoir of a Son and Soldier of the Third Reich
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A Mind in Prison: The Memoir of a Son and Soldier of the Third Reich
Bruno Manz
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A former German soldier eloquently reflects on the insidious effects of Nazi propaganda, especially on young people, citing his own experience as the son of an anti-Semitic father whom he loved deeply. Bruno Manz also recounts his wartime experiences fighting the Soviets in Finland and presents a unique perspective on the United States, to which he came in the 1950s during Operation Paperclip along with Werner von Braun and other German rocket scientists. In the epilogue he draws conclusions about Germany’s guilt and his own, baring his soul to the reader. This heartfelt memoir is for anyone who seeks to understand how a civilized people could plunge into mass insanity.

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3 out of 5 stars Personal Exorcism Not Completed.......2005-10-14

This book was interesting, earnest, candid and filled with the author's personal angst for having been duped, first by his Nazi father and then by Hitler. I disagree with some of the other reviews in that I didn't find it penetrating or searing. Bruno Manz stabs but fails at soul-searching.

In some ways it is repetitive. The author explains again and again how he was brainwashed into Nazism from youth to young adulthood. He digresses into various life experiences with teachers, schools, childhood friends, military experiences and lesser details of life. All of which he thinly connects to his primary purpose for the memoir, exorcising his personal demons over blindly serving Hitler. Many of those digressions would be unremarkable without that connection. Bruno uses those vignettes to underscore that he was misguided but they fail to reveal, illuminate or prove how any particular incident, mentor or authority figure contributed to his blind devotion to Hitler. In fact, he frequently recounts how he internally rebelled against school authorities, military authorities, rules and procedures that didn't make common sense or rubbed him the wrong way. If that is so, then he should have self analyzed further to determine how and why he dismissed his conscience when it called about Hitler, the concentration camps and the Jews. He continued to follow the grand lie and served as essentially a political officer in youth organizations and later in the military. He recounts that he was never very enthusiastic and harbored doubts, yet he continuously pressed on. Example on pg 69, he describes a school director quoting Hitler's credo, "He who wants to live, let him fight. And he who does not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle does not deserve to live." Bruno expresses misgivings when the school director says that is more religion than a person would ever find in the Bible. He admits agreeing with the anti-Semitism and anti-Catholicism of the director but boycotts his classes from then on. Methinks he doth protest too much.

Don't get me wrong, Bruno Manz clearly, genuinely, honestly apologizes for his personal role in Germany's evil shame. He denounces all that he was and embraces all that he has become since the war and particularly while living in America. But in the end about all that Bruno confirms is that, at least between 1915 and 1946, Germans were weak for rhetoric, easily swayed by romantic and heroic figures, and followed the crowd. He doesn't dig deep enough to reveal how that was possible. Were they greedy, mad, angry, vulnerable, ambitious, fearful, bombastic, maniacal, weak, bloodthirsty, gullible? Personally, he was swayed by Dad while impressionable and later by Hitler via Goebbels propaganda machine. OK, we already know that about every German during WWII. Bruno, why and how were you vulnerable to that when the rest of the world was not? Why do some Germans today continue to deny the Holocaust? Why is there an element that still deifies Hitler and anti-Semitism?

I suspect that Bruno cannot to this day accept his own cowardice. He never dared to disagree or question his father, although he credits his mother and older brother with being able to avoid anti-Semitic hatred and Hitler worship. He wouldn't dare question his Nazism or the Fuhrer because he very likely knew it would mean his death or imprisonment. Hmmm, that may be the self evident truth every German citizen who willingly participated in Nazism has to face. They didn't take any contrary action because it was someone else who was being victimized and they were cowards. So, while he may have achieved some catharsis, I doubt that he completely exorcised the regret and shame he aimed for. Still, the book has some value derived from its basic honesty and first person account.

5 out of 5 stars Outstanding account of life in Nazi Germany.......2005-03-25

A Mind in Prison is a powerful and moving personal account of life as a committed Nazi, a soldier on the Eastern Front, and the difficult and painful realization that everything the author once stood for was evil and destructive. The candor of this book is both startling and refreshing because it gives the reader tremendous insight into the corrosive power of Nazi propaganda and ideology. For the author to admit thinking and acting like he did must have been a painful experience, but it gives this account a sharp edge of credibility that might otherwise be lacking. In fact, it is that candor that makes this story so heartrendering. The world would be a much better place if more people would break their silence about the tragedy of Nazi Germany and share their experiences and feelings as openly and sincerely as Dr. Manz has.

5 out of 5 stars Important insight into the mind of a German betrayed.......2002-01-05

This book is basically the author's way of exorcising his personal demons. Manz grew up idolizing a man named Adolf Hitler, whom most Germans believed to be a sort of messiah sent to save them from the devastating poverty and national humiliation following the Treaty of Versailles. The book chronicles how Manz (and many other pro-Nazi Germans then) got to believe in the things he did, and his eventual disillusionment with the Third Reich.

Did the German civilians know about the atrocities of the concentration and extermination camps? Over the recent years, this question has loomed large in works concerning WWII in the European theater. Manz can't answer for every German during that period, but he gives us HIS story as an offering to further understanding in this matter.

This book struck a very personal chord with me. Although I was born decades after WWII, I grew up in a country where the press (in fact, every type of media - books, TV, movies, etc.) was heavily censored by the national government. The government told people what to think, what to say, when to assemble, and throws those who defy their orders in jail under the holy name of "national security". As a result, I totally understand how mind-numbing propoganda can be. A population, after all, is merely a collection of individuals living in a state. An individual's morals and personal biases are largely dependent on what information they have available to them. Hitler understood this very well, and with the help of his propoganda minister, Goebbels, managed to shape the thinking of an amazingly large portion of the German population, including the author's.

Manz is all the more convincing because he doesn't get overly apologetic, but does admit that he's not in any way proud of all that he has done (he was a Hitler Youth, and later a soldier in the German army). He feels very strongly for the victims of the Third Reich (the book is dedicated to them), and although he was never in direct contact with any official programs dealing with the "Jewish problem", regrets that he couldn't have done more.

It is very touching to read books by those who were on the "wrong" side of the war, especially those with a sense of morality (however late it surfaced) like Manz. This book is an important reminder to us of how dangerous bigotry can be, especially when it is led by an eloquent and convincing tyrant.

5 out of 5 stars A glimpse into the Third Reich.......2000-09-05

Dr. Bruno Manz has written an honest, searing story of his experiences growing up in the Third Reich with a father who he loved but who was an enthusiastic Nazi. First person accounts of this quality are rare and valuable, giving those of us who are curious as to how a civilized nation like Germany could turn itself into the soulless, mechanistic killing machine it became under Hitler a look at how ordinary people contributed, by omission or commission, to the coming horror. Dr. Manz has more than atoned for his own omissions by writing this excellent, gripping book, which I recommend to anyone interested in this perplexing episode of history.

5 out of 5 stars A New Perspective on Hitler's Germany.......2000-06-14

Over the years I have read several books on Hitler's rise to power and the effects his rule had on the German people and the Jews of Europe. Many, like William Shirer's "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" approached the subject from a historical point of view while "The Diary of Anne Frank" and "The Hiding Place" dealt with the personal stories of Hitler's victims. In his book "A Mind in Prison", Bruno Manz shows us a new perspective: what it was like for a young boy to grow up in Germany during the Hitler years. In this very personal autobiography, Dr. Manz describes the dominating influence of not only the social order imposed by Hitler but the anti-Jewish prejudice of a father he loved and respected. From his early years at the dawn of the Hitler era, through his time with the Hitler Youth and the German Army, to his disillusionment and subsequent redemption, Dr. Manz recounts his journey with depressing, humorous, and poignant stories. I highly recommend this book not only for those still seeking an understanding of how Hitler could have captured the minds of an entire nation, but also for those who love a well-written, personal story told with passion and compassion.
Hitler's Scientists: Science, War, and the Devil's Pact
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Hitler's Scientists: Science, War, and the Devil's Pact
John Cornwell
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Neither Hitler's rocket blitz of England, nor his use of unprecedented weapons technology, nor--most horrifically--his systematic program of genocide could have been achieved without the purposeful work of Nazi physicists, biologists, mathematicians, and technicians. In Hitler's Scientists, John Cornwell asks:

"Were these cases of Germans behaving according to type as Germans? Or scientists in Germany behaving according to type as scientists?"

These chilling questions encompass two more specific points. First, did the scientists who developed poison gas weapons and concentration camps do it for scientific, personal, or political purposes? Second, can scientists claim to remain objective when funded by, and working for, military or government entities? Cornwell, whose last book was Hitler's Pope, takes a hard line against those scientists who stayed and helped the Nazis after Jewish scientists were expelled and Hitler's plans became clear. With the weight of evidence, Cornwell lays flat the various personal reasons the scientists gave for their actions during the war and shows that even before World War I, German scientists had shown themselves willing to subvert laws and morality in pursuit of money and power. Cornwell also clearly outlines the popular pseudosciences--"racial hygiene," astrology, glacial cosmogony--that drove Hitler's madness. Were there any German scientists who were swept up unknowing or unwilling in the Nazi war machine? It's unclear, but Cornwell's analysis of whether Werner Heisenberg was a "hero, a villain or a fellow traveler" is crucial to that question. Heisenberg's role in the Nazi's inability to complete an atomic bomb is still a riddle, but Cornwell presents all available facts and allows readers to draw their own conclusions. In his last chapters, Cornwell draws parallels between Hitler's scientists and those working in today's world of political anxiety, terrorism, and attacks on basic science. He demolishes once and for all the outdated, disproven, and dangerous notion of scientists working in a vacuum, free of the "taint" of the outside world, and answerable only to their funders. --Therese Littleton

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When Hitler came to power in the 1930s, Germany had led the world in science, mathematics, and technology for nearly four decades. But while the fact that Hitler swiftly pressed Germany's scientific prowess into the service of a brutal, racist, xenophobic ideology is well known, few realize that German scientists had knowingly broken international agreements and basic codes of morality to fashion deadly weapons even before World War I. In Hitler's Scientists, British historian John Cornwell explores German scientific genius in the first half of the twentieth century and shows how Germany's early lead in the new physics led to the discovery of atomic fission, which in turn led the way to the atom bomb, and how the ideas of Darwinism were hijacked to create the lethal doctrine of racial cleansing.

By the war's end, almost every aspect of Germany's scientific culture had been tainted by the exploitation of slave labor, human experimentation, and mass killings. Ultimately, it was Hitler's profound scientific ignorance that caused the Fatherland to lose the race for atomic weapons, which Hitler would surely have used. Cornwell argues that German scientists should be held accountable for the uses to which their knowledge was put-an issue with wide-ranging implications for the continuing unregulated pursuit of scientific progress.

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5 out of 5 stars Explores sensitive subjects.......2007-09-24

Anyone interested in science and the turbulent times since the turn of the century will appreciate the material in this book. Personal and science views, also covers post WW2 years. Recommended!

4 out of 5 stars Scientists are also human beings.......2007-07-18

I read this book, here in Brazil.I'm a brazilian and I like to read books.
The subject of this book is the science in Germany, during Hitler's govern, between 1933 and 1945.
The main lesson from this book is the fact that scientists are such as the govern, society and times around them.
Famous american scientists such as Thomas Edison, Wright Brothers, Alexander Graham Bell,etc. were eugenicist, while they were alive.At the peak of eugenics times in USA(until 1933-1939), only a handfull of scientists(mainly catholic scientists) were against eugenics.Today is "fashion" to be an ecologist.Eugenics today is ecology.
The Wright Brothers were bigoted eugenicists(and also bigoted racists), but they were just following the press(NYT, etc.), protestant and jewish clergy, doctors,etc. from their times.
The scientists living in nazi Germany weren't crooks,They were simple a face of german society.Scientists are also human beings.They need a salary and they need to be suchs as their times and places.

2 out of 5 stars On the wrong path.......2007-02-26

The subhead of John Cornwell's "Hitler's Scientists" sets up the pointer to the wrong path he intends to take: a devil's pact implies that German scientists, like Germans generally, had to compromise their feelings in order to exist or to work in the Hitler regime.

Early in the book, Cornwell writes, "Fellow travelers did more damage than out and out Nazis, since they failed to challenge the conscience of the uncertain and the fence sitters." That assumes a point that needs proving, that there were a lot of fence sitters.

That there were some is certain. That they were other than outliers is doubtful. Some Germans fled the regime, but few of these were "Aryans." Lise Meitner wrote, after it was over, that she should have left in 1933. More sensitive than most, she finally developed doubts by 1938. There is little evidence here (or anywhere else) that Germans scientists, any more than Germans generally, objected to Hitlerism.

In "Hitler's Pope," Cornwell judiciously sifted the competing motives and influences on Cardinal Pacelli (Pope Pius XII by 1938), and rendered a harsh verdict on him. Cornwell does not hold Germans to such strict scrutiny.

Not that he absolves them. But it is not clear what line was crossed when, say, a doctor took the opportunity the regime offered to conduct hideous experiments on Jews that had not already been crossed by the whole nation on Kristallnacht -- if not very much earlier. It is not logical to say, as Cornwell implicitly does, that scientists, because they could do more damage, had a greater responsibility.

Nor does Cornwell really try to untangle the independent threads of nationalism and Hitlerism/Christianity/anti-Semitism. This does come up, especially in the case of Werner Heisenberg.

Heisenberg gets most attention because as Germany's leading atomic theorist, he could, in principle, have given Hitler an A-bomb. In practice, he couldn't have. Heisenberg was an example -- there were many, many of them even Jews -- who rated loyalty to their German nation so high that they were ready to overlook many things. (Among the ironies, but never alluded to by Cornwell, was that when it came to "giving" A-bombs to hideous totalitarians, the Nazi fellow-traveler Heisenberg failed to do so, while the American Rosenbergs -- Jews, this is where the irony arises -- did not.)

There are ironies enough even if Cornwell missed that one. He starts with Fritz Haber, of Jewish heritage, who made science work for the Kaiser. For symmetry's sake, Cornwell might have gone back a little further and cast his net wider to ask, for example, whether a Hiram Maxim (inventor of a machine gun) was any different. (He was. Unlike Haber, he sold his scientific killing technology to all comers.)

Anyway, in his narrative of events, Cornwell, perhaps inevitably, gives an unbalanced picture by selecting out the fence sitters, never more than a tiny minority. The narrative benefits from revelations dating from as late as the `90s and suffers from being too brief and, in some areas, Cornwell's ignorance. His discussion of German naval technology is laughable.

(There are many, many careless but minor errors. Field Marshal von Rundstet's first name was Gerd, not Karl, for example.)

One difficulty is that Cornwell's topic is too big. Even though the tome is fat, much is skimmed over too lightly. He writes, "Nazi science . . . was by no means unique in practicing experiments on human subjects . . . The importance is where the lines are drawn."

True. One place they could be considered to have been drawn was that the experiments were celebrated by Naziism, usually not so in other countries. German callousness does seem qualitatively different.
In any event, Cornwell's history is not so bad as to be worthless. It should have been better. To the extent that it is good, it really does not advance the summary provided by William Shirer long ago in "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich." On the other hand, it does provide a general introduction in modern dress to this important subject.

The last section of the book, "Science from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism," would better have been left out. Whatever your views about patenting genes, that moral dilemma isn't in the same league with German scientific dilemmas (to the extent that Germans even thought of them as dilemmas) in the 1933-45 era.

4 out of 5 stars An interesting book that raises many troubling questions.......2007-01-09

This is the history of German science and how it was perverted by Nazi ideology. It begins with a review of what made Germany a leader is science in the 19th and early 20th century. It then discusses how it was used and perverted to support the Nazi agenda.

The subject of German science is an immense one, and this book only scratches the surface. The early history of German science focuses on WWI, particularly with regards to poison gas and Fritz Haber. Thus, early on, it raises the question of what moral obligation, if any, a scientist has towards the use of his science. The answer appears to be that most scientists were more than willing to follow the dictates of their government, with little thought to the overall morality of what they were doing. As Werner von Braun put it after the war, he did not care if he worked for Uncle Sam or Uncle Joe (Stalin), so long as he was a rich uncle. This moral ambivalence is a main theme of the story and led, among other things, to many doctors disregarding their oath to save lives, but instead to end them in the name of racial purity. It discusses how Nazi science contributed to the Holocaust and to the deaths of slave labores working to build the German synthetic gas and rocket plants.

The book covers the dismissal of German Jewish scientists and which of their colleagues protested and which took this as the easy road to advancement. The book discusses "Jewish Physics" and how this view of modern physics retarded the development of a German atomic bomb. (Much of the later portion of the book deals with the German bomb project and whether or not Werner Heisenberg actively worked to prevent its development.) Hitler's view of science is also discussed and shows how this retarded not only the development of a German bomb, but also (unfortunately only temporarily) the development of jet planes and rockets.

This is an interesting book that raises many troubling questions.

3 out of 5 stars Overdone subject.......2006-12-31

This is basically a study of scientist in Germany both in WW1 and in particular WW2 who faced a moral issue of their work and morality. I found the studies here being quite ordinary. Nothing particularly new.

Towards the end I started to feel that the scope of the book is too narrow as this problem is not just one of scientist in a period of war but anyone who is a citizen of a country has to face a question of his own personal morality and the job he does.
Scientists Under Hitler: Politics and the Physics Community in the Third Reich
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    Hitler's Scientists: Science, War, and the Devil's Pact
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      John Cornwell
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      Covering the dramatic rise of German science in the nineteenth century, itspreeminence in the early twentieth, and the frightening developments that led to its collapse in 1945, this is the compelling story of German scientists under Hitler's regime. Weaving the history of science and technology with the fortunes of war and the stories of men and women whose discoveries brought both benefits and destruction to the world, Hitler's Scientists raises questions that are still urgent today. As science becomes embroiled in new generations of weapons of mass destruction and the war against terrorism, as advances in biotechnology outstrip traditional ethics, this powerful account of Nazi science forms a crucial commentary on the ethical role of science. the scientists who served Hitler.
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            Women Scientists in the Third World: The Indian Experience
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              Women Scientists in the Third World: The Indian Experience
              Lalita Subrahmanyan
              Manufacturer: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd
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              Binding: Hardcover

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              ASIN: 0761992383

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              This book is a unique `collective biography' of women scholars in the `hard' sciences at the University of Madras. As an ethnographic case study, it combines a comprehensive description of the lives and careers of individual women who struggle in a male-dominated workplace that marginalizes them with an analysis of the structures and organizational features that serve to maintain them in that peripheral position.

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