Volume 34, Number 9 · May 28, 1987
The Death Doctors
By Neal Ascherson
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
by Robert Jay Lifton
Basic Books, 561 pp., $19.95
Mengele: The Complete Story
by Gerald L. Posner, by John Ware
McGraw-Hill, 364 pp., $18.95
Auschwitz: An Eyewitness Account of Mengele's Infamous Death Camp
by Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, translated by Tibère Kremer, by Richard Seaver, with a foreword by Bruno Bettelheim
Seaver Books, 160 pp., $6.95 (paper)
Letters from Westerbork
by Etty Hillesum, introduction and notes by Jan G. Gaarlandt, translated by Arnold J. Pomerans
Pantheon, 156 pp., $14.95
On a winter morning in Frankfurt, when it was still dark, the journalists were taken into a small, well-guarded room to show them the defendants at the forthcoming Auschwitz trial. That was in 1963. I remember staring at those faces, as the photographers scrambled among them, as if physiognomy would begin to unlock the mystery of how human beings—what sort of human beings?—had done those things.
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