Dr Robert Jay Lifton THE NAZI DOCTORS:
                        Medical Killing and the
                            Psychology of Genocide ©
 
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AUSCHWITZ: THE RACIAL CURE 
 
Even when the selection was only partial, as was more usual, large numbers of patients could be doomed, as Dr. Adelsberger described: 
 
At about ten the Lagerarzt [camp doctor] appears on a visit. “Achtung!” Jewish block with 68 patients! The Lagerarzt has a long time for the block today and looks at each of the patients separately. Those who can walk have to file past him. Those who don’t march smartly enough, those with swollen feet or with superficial sores, those who can't get out of bed, all these have their numbers noted. After barely an hour, more than 400 numbers have been written down. When the Lagerarzt leaves the block there is a paralyzing silence. More than 400 know that in a few hours time they will be transferred to another block where perhaps many hundreds more are waiting ... a block isolated from the rest of the camp where only the corpse bearers have entry, for the death that awaits in the gas chamber has already stamped its irrevocable seal.22
 
THE NAZI DOCTORS:
Medical Killing and the
Psychology of Genocide

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