'Mengele Annotated Bibliography\r'

'This news goes into natural breaker point describing every facet of the Nazi regimes conf expenditured medical exam experiments, policies and atrocities with the intention of giving the reader an rationality of the past such that it should not repeat itself- as the author suggests it may in todays atmospheres of modern racial extermination and â€Å"ethnic cleansing.” Lifton draws comparisons stopicularly to potencely similar situations in Serbia, Rwanda and Cambodia, and draws parallels to the political and societal evolutions that took place in Germany, in the end developing a â€Å"genocidal mentality” that resulted in the opinionated cleanup spot of (and medical experimentation on) millions of innocent victims.\r\nIt swimmingly describes the growth and development of the overall Nazi medical ideology, beginning with the definition of â€Å"life unworthy of life.” Lifton explains the exercise by which mentally and physically disabled children and a dults came to be regarded as detriments to society that needed to be killed- both for their own sober and for the betterment of mankind. This twisted gather in resulted in a state-sanctioned euthanasia program, wherein German doctors were root compelled to break their Hippocratic Oath- the professional promise to do no harm that is as old as medicine itself.\r\nFrom its beginnings, Lifton further describes the progression of Nazi killings under(a) the guise of science- culminating in the work of Dr. Josef Mengele in the density camp Auschwitz. Unlike many studies of Mengeles work, Lifton does not digest simply on the horrors he perpetrated during his time at the camp. Rather, he fires to explain how the â€Å"camp culture” inside Auschwitz and the increasingly brutal practices of the Nazi system resulted in the atmosphere which allowed such horrible atrocities to occur.\r\nKoren, Y. (2005). Mengele and the Family of Dwarfs: Yehuda Koren Tells One Familys singular Stor y of Surviving Auschwitz. History Today, 55, 32-33.\r\nThis term examines some new(prenominal) group of Mengeles victims, Jews suffering the genetic disease of dwarfism. Specifically, an complete family, all of whom somehow managed to survive not simply his experiments only the deadly atmosphere of Auschwitz itself.\r\nKoren provides first-person accounts via interviews of some members of the Ovitz family, a unique clan from Romania that arrived at Auschwitz in 1944. The family of twelve include seven dwarfs and was the largest recorded dwarf family in the world and before their transport to Auschwitz had spent years touring in a traveling exhibition that promoted them as the â€Å"Lilliput Troupe.” Mengele was passing interested in genetic abnormalities, and as such targeted dwarfs and separate unusual individuals for experimentation.\r\nExperiments conducted on the family included extensive drawing of rip, high doses of radiation, removal of blood marrow samples, teeth pulled and the women received mysterious instalions into their wombs. condescension all of this horrid treatment, Mengele seemed to engage a eerie fondness for the family and oft treated them to special meals and other privileges, so that he could usage them as a source of entertainment for other SS officers. This makes their causa extremely unique amongst all of his victims. So, piece of music he overturned killing them, he did so for entirely selfish reasons.\r\nThe case involving this particular family offers interesting insight into Mengeles personality.\r\nFreyhofer, H. (2004). The Nuremberg aesculapian campaign: The Holocaust and the Origin of the Nuremberg Medical Code. New York: rooster Lang Publishing.\r\nThis book examines and explains the Medical or â€Å"Doctors” trial of Nuremberg, by recounting everything that led up to the trial, and the wide-ranging performances it had. Particular care is remunerative to analyzing the breaches in ethical motive by members of the medical community that chose to take part in the Nazi euthanasia programs and subsequent medical experimentation on prisoners. These doctors, when charged with war crimes in the face of overwhelming evidence of what went on during the hound of business of the war in hospitals and concentration camps, attempted to sample that the experiments they carried come out were justifiable in the name of science.\r\nthough Josef Mengele was on the run and in privateness at the time of the Trial and didn’t face umpire alongside his fellow perpetrators, Freyhofer goes into extensive detail analyzing Mengeles methods and potential  motivations, as well as the ethical implications of Mengeles work. alternatively of focusing on the nature of the experiments performed by Mengele and other Nazi doctors, this text seeks to examine the larger see to it of medical responsibility.\r\nFreyhofer explains the nature of the Hippocratic oath and wherefore it failed t o endure the pressures brought upon it by Nazi ideology. Coupled with this is a study of how the doctors charged in the trial, many of them extremely respected in their fields before the war, could commence so thoroughly warped their ethical viewpoints.\r\nThe most(prenominal) significant contribution of this work is the explanation of the Nuremberg Medical Code that resulted from the trial, in which the courts set a good international standard for medical experimentation. As a result of this landmark decision, doctors could never again conduct to have performed experimentation on unwilling subjects for the good of science.\r\nRiordan, C. (1997). The Sins of the Children: Peter Schneider, Allan Massie and the Legacy of Auschwitz. Journal of European Studies, 27, 161-180.\r\nThis article examines the repercussions that Nazi war crimes have had on the posterity of both the perpetrators and the victims. Countless sources recount the stories of Holocaust survivors and the stories of their children, but few examine the effects the war had on the equally innocent children of many top Nazis. These children grew up with the heart-breaking weight of their fathers crimes, which in turn generated a tier of self-loathing.\r\nOne particular figure of interest in this article is Rolf Mengele, the son of Dr. Josef Mengele. Mengele, having disappeared after the war into hiding in Brazil, lived out the rest of his days in relative peace and quiet, never meeting vengeance for his terrible crimes. Six years after the final stage of his father, Rolf finally came forward and recounted his story of what it was like to have to live in obscurity under changeless fear of discovery, and coping with the knowledge that his father never regretted any of his barbaric doings.\r\nThe primary purpose cornerstone analyzing the stories of the children of Nazi war criminals is to delay where historians draw the line between understanding and acceptance. To accomplish this, Riordan re ferences two fictionalized accounts of these father-son relationships in order to gain insight into how the children of war criminals tidy sum with the knowledge of their fathers actions, and what action (or lack thereof) they take to attempt to atone for those crimes. Why, for example, did Rolf Mengele never turn his father in to the authorities? The motives are varied, and in the end its up to the individual to weigh perceived loyalty to family, or loyalty to justice.\r\nHinton, AL. (2002). Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide. Berkeley: University of California Press.\r\nThis book seeks to examine the larger picture of genocide and what drives almsgiving to single out and persecute specific groups of batch within society. By studying various cases where genocide has occurred, such as the Holocaust, the author hopes to bring almost an understanding of what causes these shameful events and how we might strive to bar them in the future.\r\nHinton states that ge nocide cannot occur without a hindquarters of ideology that the perpetrators feel justifies their behavior. Clearly this makes the Holocaust a prime example, and Hinton places great emphasis on the divinatory anthropological basis for many Nazi ideologies. to begin with amongst these are those regarding the Jews, who were defined by the Nazis as a lesser breed of humanity due to their conventional ethnic features, which differed in some ways from the â€Å" exalted” Aryan.\r\nThis anthropological view that Jews were sub-human played a major(ip) role in Nazi justification of their treatment of the Jews, from basic imprisonment to systematic killing and use in ghastly medical experiments like those carried out by Josef Mengele.\r\nHinton also discusses the psychological blocks put in place by the Nazis themselves in order to avoid full comprehension of their misdeeds. This included the frequent use of obscure terms and code words that were employ in place of clear descript ions of the atrocities carried out on prisoners by Mengele and other Nazis. This suggests that even ideology couldn’t fully convince even the Nazis that what they were doing was right, and subconciously they corrected for this by softening the appearance of their crimes, at least in writing.\r\nBaumel, JT. (2000). â€Å"You Said the Words You Wanted Me to Hear just I Heard The Words You Couldnt Bring Yourself To hypothecate”: Womens First Person Accounts of the Holocaust. The Oral History Review. 27, 17-18.\r\nThis article offers a unique view of some of Mengeles bury victims, the start outs of many of the children used in his experiments. Its well enter that Mengele was highly interested in performing experiments on similitudes, and he took great care to sort pair off children out from the rest of the Jews brought to Auschwitz by train. Twins were often yanked from their mothers grasps and the mothers sent off to their deaths never knowing what became of their c hildren, while other times the mothers themselves were also involved in the experiments.\r\nThis article examines both situations, with particular attention paid to the later group- Mengele was interested in what caused the twin phenomenon, and did tests on the Jewish mothers of twins in hopes of discovering the cause of twin births. early(a) mothers were forced to take part in the tests conducted on their own children, sometimes forced to inject their children with unknown substances, many of which had terrible effects. This had an obvious desolate psychological effect on these mothers, which Baumel explores in detail through first hand accounts.\r\nOther times, big(predicate) women were selected by Mengele for experimentation, such as one mother that had her newborn child taken from her and was forced to date it starve to death as Mengele sought to determine how long a newborn could survive without its mother. Other pregnant women were experimented on, with injections and surg ery. Through this and other terrible descriptions, Baumel illustrates not only the horrors of Mengeles experimentation, but also the terrible effect it had on the women they involved.\r\n'