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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 47-63 
 
(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.)    
 
[“Euthana…] sie” im NS-Staat: Die "Vernichtung lebensunwerten Lebens” (Frankfurt/M.: S. Fischer, 1983), pp. 19-25. 
4. Binding, “Rechtliche Ausführung,” in Freigabe [3], pp. 16-37.  
5. Hoche, “Ärztliche Bemerkungen,” in Freigabe [3], pp. 46-47, 54-58 
6. Ibid., pp. 61-62.  
7. Dörner, “Lebensvernichtung” [2], p. 129.  
8. Adolf Dorner, Lehrbuch der Mathematik für höhere Schulen (1935, rev. ed. 1936), quoted in Heyde Trial, pp. 33-36. 
9. Walter Schultze, quoted in Klee, “Euthanasie”   [3], p. 47.
10. Ibid., pp. 76-77, 163-65.  
11. Erwin Leiser, Nazi Cinema (New York: Macmillan, 1974 [1968]), pp. 89-94, 143-45. On Unger, see Klee, “Euthanasie” [3], pp. 79, 342-43. Helmut Unger’s novel was Sendung und Gewissen (Berlin: Brunnen Verlag, 1935).  
12. Leiser, Cinema [11], pp. 146-49; Heinz Hähne, The Order of the Death’s Head: The Story of Hitler’s S.S. (New York: Coward-McCann, 1969 [1966]), pp. 423-27. 
13.Testimony of Professor Böhm, 12 July 1961, Heyde Trial, pp. 41-42. Also named in the 1936 discussions were Dr. Walter Gross of the Office of Racial Politics and Minister-Director Walter Schultze. 
14. Testimony of Otto Mauthe, 20 December 1961, Heyde Trial, pp. 42-43 
15. Brandt testimony, 4 February 1947, Nuremberg Medical Case, transcript, pp. 2409-10, and vol. I, p. 894; also in Heyde Trial, pp. 51-52. See also Lothar Gruchmann, “Euthanasie und Justiz im Dritten Reich,” Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 20 (1972):238-39, on general euthanasia requests involving the incurably ill during 1938-39; in the absence of a law they were directed to Hitler’s Chancellery. 
16. Brandt testimony [15]. See also Hans Hefelmann's account, 31 August and 7-14 November 1960, Heyde Trial, pp. 48-51, 53-54; and Gruchmann, “Euthanasie und Justiz” [15], pp. 240-41.  
17. Brandt transcript [15], p. 2410. 
18. Heyde Trial, pp. 53-54. 
19. Secret order, 18 August 1939, “re: duty to report malformed, etc. newborns,” quoted fully in Klee, “Euthanasie” [3] pp. 80-81. 
20. Heyde Trial, pp. 53-54. 
21. Ibid., pp. 66-72. 
22. Hefelmann testimony, 7-14 November 1960, Heyde Trial, p. 66. 
23. On the questionnaires and experts, see Heyde Trial, pp. 74-177 
24. Hefelmann testimony, 7-9 December 1960, Heyde Trial, p. 149. 
25 Heyde Trial, p. 117. 
26. Ibid., pp. 116-77; the centers are listed on pp. 128-31. 
27. Heinze testimony, 27 September 1961, Heyde Trial, pp. 150-51. 
28. Sample letter to parents, 30 September 1941, Heyde Trial, p. 111; see pp. 100-116. 
29. Testimony of Dr. Valentin Faltlhauser, 22-23 April 1948; and Nurse Mina Wörle, 7 May 1948 (Kaufbeuren asylum), Heyde Trial, pp. 143-47. 
30. Hefelmann testimony, 7-14 November 1960, Heyde Trial, p. 123.  
31. On the broadening of categories, see Heyde Trial, pp. 82-90, 131-34. 
32. Ibid., pp. 165-72. 
33. Lehner testimony, cited in Klee, “Euthanasie” [3], pp. 88-89. 
34. Lammers testimony, 7 February 1947, Nuremberg Medical Case, transcript, pp. 2687-88; Heyde Trial, pp. 178-79, dates the events “July at the latest.”  
35. Heyde Trial, p. 203; see pp. 201-6. See also Doc. 630-PS, Nuremberg Medical Case, vol. I, p. 893; Brandt testimony, 4 February 1947, transcript, pp. 2407-8.  
36. Brandt testimony [35], p. 2407.  
37. Hermann Pfannmüller, quoted in Gerhard Schmidt, Selektion in der Heilanstalt 1939-1945 (Stuttgart: Evangelisches Verlagsanstalt, 1965), p. see pp. 34-35. 
38. Alice Platen-Hallermund, Die Tötung Geisteskranker in Deutschland (Frankfurt/M.: Verlag der Frankfurter Hefte, 1948), p. 18; Gruchmann, “Euthanasie” [15], p. 241.  
 
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Medical Killing and the
Psychology of Genocide
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