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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 38-46 
 
(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.)   
 
55. JAMA 107 (1936):979-80. On Laughlin, see Kevles, Eugenics [1], pp. 102-4, 118. For Kennedy’s views, see “The Problem of Social Control of the Congenital Defective: Education, Sterilization, Euthanasia,” American Journal of Psychiatry, 99 (1942): 13-16.  
56. JAMA 110 (1938): 298. 
57. Kater, “Medizinische Fakultäten” [33] pp. 94-104; Leo Alexander, “The Medical School Curriculum in War-Time Germany,” Combined Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee, Item 24 (Medical), File No. XXVII-71.  
58. Karl Saller, Die Rassenlehre des Nationalsozialismus im Wissenschaft und Propaganda (Darmstadt: Progress-Verlag, 1961); JAMA 104 (1935): 2010. 
59. Richard Hanser, A Noble Treason: Students Against Hitler (New York: Putnam, 1970), pp. 187, 22, 117, respectively. 
60. JAMA 112 (1939): 1982. 
61. JAMA 106 (1936): 1214-15; 113 (1939): 2163 
62. On the “nature movement,” see Cocks, Psychotherapy [48], pp. 138-43; Kater, “Medizinische Fakultäten” [33] pp. 91-93; JAMA 103(1934): 1164-65 (“house of health”); 112 (1939):1740. 
63. Stephan Leibfried and Florian Tennstedt, Berufsverbote und Sozialpolitik, 1933: Die Auswirkungen der nationalsozialistischen Machtergreifung auf die Krankenkassenverwaltung und die Kassenärzte (Bremen: Universität Bremen, 1981) pp. 67-76, 210-13; Cocks, Psychotherapy [48], pp. 87-89. 
64. Dr. M Stämmler, “Das Judentum in der Medizin” Arteblatt für Vorddeutschland (1938), quoted in Leibfried and Tennstedt Berufsverbote [63] pp 307-12. 
65. Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick, quoted in JAMA 105 (1935):1998; see 106 (1936): 136. 
66. Kater, Nazi Party [41], pp. 112-14, 134-37; JAMA 106 (1936):1214-15. On the Nuremberg laws and related legislation, see Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews (Chicago Quadrangle 1967 [1961]) pp 42-53, and Helmut Krausnick, “The Persecution of the Jews,” in Krausnick et al. Anatomy of the SS State (Chicago Walker, 1968 [1965]) pp 23-43. 
67. Jan Sehn, “Carl Claubergs verbrecherische Unfruchtbarmachungs-Versuche an Häftlings-Frauen in den Nazi-Konzentrationslagern,” Hefte von Auschwitz 2 (1959):3-31. 
68. Larry V. Thompson, “Lebensborn and the Eugenics Policy of the Reichsführer-SS,” Central European History 4 (1971): 55.  
69. Marc Hillel and Clarissa Henry, Of Pure Blood (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976 [1975]), pp. 55, 116-26, 191-203.  
70. Alexander Mitscherlich and Fred Mielke, The Death Doctors (London: Elek Books, 1949) p 17. 
71. Ernst Mann [Gerhard Hoffmann] Die Erlosung der Menschheit vom Elend (Weimar F. Fink, 1922), p. 39. 
 
 
Chapter 2 “Euthanasia”: Direct Medical Killing  
 
1. See Foster Kennedy, “The Problem of Social Control of the Congenital Defective Education Sterilization Euthanasia,” American Journal of Psychiatry 99 (1942):13-16. Kennedy was rebutted by Leo Kanner, the leading American child psychiatrist of the time who did, however, favor sterilization. “Exoneration of the Feebleminded,” American Journal of Psychiatry 99 (1942):17-22. 
2. Adolf Jost, Das Recht auf den Tod: Sociale Studie (Göttingen: Dieterich’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1895); Klaus Dörner, “Nationalsozialismus und Lebensvernichtung,” Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 15 (1967):123-24. On the intellectual background, see Amnon Amir, “Euthanasia in Nazi Germany” (unpublished dissertation, State University of New York, Albany, 1977). 
3. Karl Binding and Alfred Hoche, Die Freigabe der Vernichtung lebebsunwerten Lebens: Ihr Mass und ihre Form (Leipzig F. Meiner, 1920). On Binding and Hoche see Ernst Klee, “Euthana […sie]  
 
THE NAZI DOCTORS:
Medical Killing and the
Psychology of Genocide

Robert J. Lifton
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