Dr Robert Jay Lifton THE NAZI DOCTORS:
                        Medical Killing and the
                            Psychology of Genocide ©
 
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“LIFE UNWORTHY OF LIFE”: THE GENETIC CURE 
 
ever in deciding when and in what way the syringe or other medication would be ued. “Wild euthanasia” can be understood as a continuation in still more medicalized form of the project of  “euthanasia” killing. Simple medical technology — drugs, injections, diets — filled the murder vacuum as the regime’s continuing desire to destroy “bad” genes was effected by the interaction of Nazi medical bureaucracy and individual Nazi doctors. The process continued until — in some places even beyond — the demise of the Nazi regime: there are stories of Allied troops liberating surviving patients at gunpoint.25
 
THE NAZI DOCTORS:
Medical Killing and the
Psychology of Genocide

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