When I received this book, I
thought I would hold onto it for browsing and reference, but the first page of
the foreword pulled me immediately into the introduction and quickly through to
page 20 when the research report actually began. One chapter led to another,
leaving me disappointed whenever I had to put the book down, until I’d read the
entire study (except for the index) within a few weeks.
Ever since I was a high
school student who turned my first term paper into an argument that people
living in Germany had to have known of the Nazi concentration camps and Jewish
genocide happening in their midst, I’ve been intrigued by the psychology of
societies and individuals who allow unspeakable crimes against humanity to
occur. The main questions of this book are how and why did so many in the
medical profession (healers) became crucial participants in Nazi
orchestrated mass murder.
If you are brave enough to face the
psychological darkness and vile actions reported in the book and are also
willing to come face to face with how such evil relates to the rest of us, then
I suggest that this research may help build your own psychological ability to
recognize, face, and fight against human atrocities in our world today.
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