An analysis of the psychological forces behind the transformation of Nazi doctors into mass murderers in Auschwitz and other "death camps."

Includes index. The Mazal Holocaust Collection.

Sterilization and the Nazi biomedical vision -- Euthanasia : direct medical killing -- Resistance to direct medical killing -- Wild euthanasia : the doctors take over -- Participants -- Bringing euthanasia to the camps : action special treatment -- Auschwitz institution -- Selections on the ramp -- Selections in the camp -- Socialization to killing -- Prisoner doctors : the agony of selections -- Prisoner doctors : struggles to heal -- Prisoner doctors : collaboration with Nazi doctors -- Killing with syringes : phenol injections -- Experimental impulse -- Human being in an SS uniform : Ernst B. -- Dr. Auschwitz : Josef Mengele -- Healing-killing conflict : Eduard Wirths -- Doubling : the Faustian bargain -- Auschwitz self : psychological themes in doubling -- Genocide.