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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 374-396 
 
(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. Ibid. 
56. Nyiszli deposition [31]. 
57. Hochhuth, The Deputy [2], p. 32. 
58. Lengyel, Five Chimneys [14], p. 144. 
59. On the German reaction to the NBC film Holocaust, shown in the United States in 1978 and in West Germany and many other countries the next year, see Peter Märthesheimer and Ivo Frenzel, Im Kreuzfeuer: Der Fernsehfilm “Holocaust” (Frankfurt/M.: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag; 1979) and Klaus Dörner et al., eds., Der Krieg gegen die psychisch Kranken: Nach “Holocaust.” (Rehburg-Loccum: Psychiatrie-Verlag, 1980). 
60. See the series “Der Fall Mengele,” based on Mengele’s discovered notebooks and his son’s recollections in BUNTE (20 June-28 July 1985). See also Robert Jay Lifton,“What Made This Man? Mengele,” New York Times Magazine (25 Ju1y 1985), pp. 16-25. “Definitive proof” that the exhumed skeleton was Mengele’s was established in March 1986 by means of dental records (New York Times, 28 March 1986, p. A8).   
 
 
 Chapter 18. Healing-Killing Conflict: Eduard Wirths
 
1. Hermann Langbein, Menschen in Auschwitz (Vienna: Europaverlag, 1972), pp. 411-12.
2. Ibid., p. 432. 
3. Documentary produced by Rolf Orthel and Hans Fels, first shown on Dutch television on 18 April 1975 (communication from Hermann Langbein).
4. Fragebogen zum Verlobungs- und Heiratsgesuch (SS marriage application), 10 November 1936; Wirths to Himmler, 12 November 1936 (regarding marriage permission); SS promotion document, July 1944 (BDC: Wirths).  
5. For biographical information, see also Langbein, Menschen [1], pp. 422-24.  
6. Langbein, Menschen [1], pp 413-14.  
7. Ibid., pp. 48-49  
8. Ibid., pp. 49-51. 
9. Ibid., pp. 417-18.  
10. Ibid., pp. 56-58.  
11. Ibid., p. 413.  
12. Ibid.,p. 415.  
13. This self-image is reflected in Wirth’s apologia, written in British captivity during the summer of 1945.  
14. Langbein, Menschen [1], p. 426.  
15. Ibid., pp. 426-27.  
16. Karl Lill to Albert Wirths, 2 February 1946 Lill to Wirth’s wife, 2 December 1976. On the evacuation, see Langbein, Menschen [1], p. 431 .  
17. Langbein, Menschen [1], pp. 427-28.  
18. Ibid., pp. 428-30.  
19. Höss, quoted in Langbein, Menschen [1], pp. 413-14.  
20. Hermann Langbein, Die Stärkeren. Ein Bericht (Vienna: Stern, 1949), p. 100.  
21. On the typhus experiments, see Langbein, Menschen [l], pp. 428-30.  
22. Ibid., pp. 426-27 (on joining the SS); see Langbein’s discussion of his half-Jewishness, p. 19.  
23. Ibid., pp. 413-14.
24. Ibid., p. 420; Langbein in documentary [3].  
25. Bernd Naumann, Auschwitz: A Report on the Proceedings Against Robert Karl Mulka and Others Before the Court at Frankfurt (New York: Praeger, 1966 [1965]), pp. 62-66; Langbein, Menschen [1], pp. 485-86.  
26. Documentary [3]. 
27. Wirths to his wife, 7 September 1942. 
 
THE NAZI DOCTORS:
Medical Killing and the
Psychology of Genocide

Robert J. Lifton
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