This book presented the Holocaust in a most direct manner. Lifton's book depicts the holocaust through the eyes of the prison doctors, as the prison doctors perceived their horror and as they experienced their horror. As one of the prison doctors confided, "Our pride-my pride-is to have been able to remain human there...I believe we remained doctors in spirit in spite of everything." The book illustrates several different medical killing's and experimental surgery , from …showed first 75 words of 1821 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1821 total…anyone to commit such experiments, let alone to commit them brutally and without remorse. I had heard such stories in the past, but after reading Lifton's book I do not think I can look at military the same way again. Military regimes seem to posses a special power that is too powerful for anyone to control. Book Reviews Physchology Today Nov. 86 p78 v20 Publishers Weekly Ag. 15' 86' v31 New York Times S' 25' 86 v136