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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 16-28 
 
(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.)  
 
15. Mosse, German Ideology [5], p. 103.  
16. Himmler, quoted in Krausnick, “Persecution”, [12], p. 14.  
17. George L. Mosse, Toward the Final Solution: A History of European Racism (New York: Fertig, 1978), p. 77.  
18. Hitler, Mein Kampf [l0], pp. 397-98.  
19. Nuremberg Medical Case, especially vol. I, pp. 8-17 (the indictment) and 27-74 (opening statement by Chief Prosecutor Telford Taylor, 9 December 1946); personal interview with James M. McHaney, prosecutor of the Medical Case. 
 
 
 Chapter 1. Sterilization and the Nazi Biomedical Vision
 
1. Fritz Lenz, Menschliche Auslese und Rassenhygiene, vol. II of Erwin Bauer, Eugen Fischer, and Lenz, Grundriss der menschlichen Erblichheitsiehre und Rassenhygiene (Munich: J. F. Lehmanns Verlag, 1923), p. 147. See the expanded version of this joint work's third (1927) edition, especially for American readers: Human Heredity (New York: Macmillan, 1931). On Davenport and Cold Spring Harbor, see Daniel J. Kevles, In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985), pp. 44-56.  
2. George L. Mosse, Toward the Final Solution: A History of European Racism (New York: Harper & Row, 1978), p. 81. 
3. Albert Edward Wiggam, New Decalogue of Science (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1923), pp. 25-26. 
4. J[acob] P. Landman, Human Sterilization: The History of the Sexual Sterilization Movement (New York: Macmillan, 1932), pp. 4-5. 
5. Helmut Krausnick, "The Persecution of the Jews" in Krausnick et al., Anatomy of the SS State (New York: Walker, 1968 [1965]), pp. 16-17.  
6. “Human Sterilization in Germany and the United States,” JAMA 102 (1934):1501-2; see Kevles, Eugenics [1], pp. 113-17. 
7. Kevles, Eugenics [1], p. 116 
8. Ibid., p. 117. 
9. Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (Boston: Houghton Muffin, 1943 [1925-26]), pp. 403-4, 257, respectively.  
10. JAMA 101 (1933):866.-67; 102 (1934):630-31, 1501; 103 (1934):849-50. W. W. Peter “Germany’s Sterilization Program,” American Journal of Public Health 24 (1934): 187. 
11. JAMA 105 (1935):1999. 
12. JAMA 104 (1935):2109 (Wagner); 101 (1933):867; 106 (1936):1582.  
13. JAMA 106 (1936):1582. 
14. JAMA 103 (1934):766-67, 850; 106 (1936): 58, 308-9.  
15.JAMA 104 (1935):2110.  
16. JAMA 102 (1934):57; 103 (1934):1164; 104 (1935):2110. 
17. JAMA 104 (1935):1183. 
18. JAMA 105 (1935):1051. 
19. W[alter] von Baeyer, “Die Bestätigung der NS-Ideologie in der Medizin unter besonderer Berücksichtgung der Euthanasie,” Universitätstage 5 (1966):64; Ernst Klee, “Euthanasie” im NS-Staat: Die “Vernichtung lebensunwerten Lebens” (Frankfurt/M.: S. Fischer, 1983), p. 86. Much of my manuscript had been completed when this important book appeared, but I have used it to confirm and supplement information from other sources. Another important recent study is Gisela Bock, “Racism and Sexism in Nazi Germany: Motherhood, Compulsory Sterilization and the State,” in When Biology Became Destiny: Women in Weimar and Nazi Germany, Renate Bridenthal, Atina Grossmann, and Marion Kaplan, eds. (New York: Monthly Review, 1985), pp. 271-96. 
20. JAMA 105 (1935):1052-53 21. 
Ernst Rüdin, “Zehn Jahre nationalsozialistischer Staat,” Archivefur Rassen- und Gesellschaftsbiologie 36 (1942):321.  
 
THE NAZI DOCTORS:
Medical Killing and the
Psychology of Genocide

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