Robert Jay Lifton is one of my favorite writers in the psychology/historical psychology genre. He is always well researched, well written, and posits things in a way that everyone can understand. This book was extremely good. It went into detail about the roles that Nazi Doctors played in the Holocaust, and how some of their tactics are employed as standard practice in modern medicine. It is very interesting to see how the doctor's reconciled the oath they have to take to become doctors with the experimentation, torture, and murder of thousands upon thousands of people. Truly, a lot of information was gained from these horrific times from the human test subjects, but at what cost to humanity as a whole? I appreciated the unbiased factual presentation of the methodology of the experiments and results, but it is terrible to think about these people being unwilling and just absolutely destroyed.


This book is featured on The Last Podcast On The Left reading list. (Episodes 348-350, Josef Mengele)