Table of Contents
Preface to the 2017 Edition vii
Preface to the 2000 Edition xi
Foreword xv
Introduction: "This World Is Not This World" 3
Part I "Life Unworthy of Life": The Genetic Cure
Introduction to Part I 21
1 Sterilization and the Nazi Biomedical Vision 22
2 "Euthenasia": Direct Medical Killing 45
3 Resistance to Direct Medical Killing 80
4 "Wild Euthanasia": The Doctors Take Over 96
5 Participants 103
6 Bringing "Euthanasia" to the Camps: Action Special Treatment 14f13 134
Part II Auschwitz: The Racial Cure
Introduction to Part II 147
7 The Auschwitz Institution 152
8 Selections on the Ramp 163
9 Selection in the Camp 180
10 Socialization to Killing 193
11 Prisoner Doctors: The Agony of Selections 214
12 Prisoner Doctors: Struggles to Heal 226
13 Prisoner Doctors: Collaboration with Nazi Doctors 239
14 Killing with Syringes: Phenol Injections 254
15 The Experimental Impulse 269
16 "A Human Being in an SS Uniform": Ernst B. 303
17 Dr. Auschwitz: Josef Mengele 337
18 Healing-Killing Conflict: Eduard Wirths 384
Part III The Psychology of Genocide
Introduction to Part III 417
19 Doubling: The Faustian Bargain 418
20 The Auschwitz Self: Psychological Themes in Doubling 430
21 Genocide 466
Afterword: Bearing Witness 501
List of Abbreviations 506
Notes 507
Acknowledgments 540
Index 545
