I just got through reading "Doctors From Hell" by Vivien Spitz, and "Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eywitness Account" by Dr. Mikos Nyizli. The latter describes the medical "research" in a matter-of-fact, almost clinical way, which makes it even more bizarre. One event that was hard to read about was when Dr. Nyizli (a Jewish doctor on "sonderkommand") is ordered by Dr. Mengele to interview a father and son about their handicaps, just to have some background data for the autopsy he has to perform on them minutes later.
I don't know why I torture myself reading books like that, but I find it important not to forget. I have been to Dachau and Bergen-Belsen, and it was an almost surreal experience to be there thinking about what happened many years ago.
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