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 Dr Robert Jay Lifton THE NAZI DOCTORS:
                        Medical Killing and the
                            Psychology of Genocide ©
 
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AUSCHWITZ THE RACIAL CURE 
 
kinds of wounds it can cause; experiments on the regeneration of bone, muscle, nerve tissue, and on bone transplantation, involving removal of various bones, muscles, and nerves from healthy women. All of the experiments were related to the Nazi biomedical vision, whether they directly contributed to cultural genocide (as in the case of sterilization) or were the work of German physicians taking a leading role in biological and genetic purification.

In experiments in sterilization, of course, the ideological source and goals are clear. But all the other experiments as well reflect the Nazi image of “life unworthy of life,” of creatures who, because less than human, can be studied, altered, manipulated, mutilated, or killed — in the service of the Nordic race, and ultimately of remaking humankind. One experiments without limit in order to “gather together the best blood” and “once more breed over the generations the pure type of Nordic German.”66 The task is never accomplished, so one must continue experimenting. All of Auschwitz becomes not only a vast experiment but an unending one.  
 
THE NAZI DOCTORS:
Medical Killing and the
Psychology of Genocide

Robert J. Lifton
ISBN 0-465-09094
© 1986
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