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Doctors From Hell

  • 316 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 2005
  • 5 editions

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1 About this book

A chilling story of human depravity and ultimate justice, told for the first time by an eyewitness court reporter for the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Nazi doctors. This is the account of 22 men and 1 woman and the torturing and killing by experiment they authorized in the name of scientific research and patriotism.

Doctors from Hell includes trial transcripts that have not been easily available to the general public and previously unpublished photographs used as evidence in the trial. The author describes the experience of being in bombed-out, dangerous, post-war Nuremberg, where she lived for two years while working on the trial.

Once a Nazi sympathizer tossed bombs into the dining room of the hotel where she lived moments before she arrived for dinner. She takes us into the courtroom to hear the dramatic testimony and see the reactions of the defendants to the proceedings.

Good for readers who want: history and a true life story.

  • Medical ethics
  • Human experimentation in medicine
  • History
  • Biography
  • History, 20th Century
  • War crime
  • National socialism
  • Holocaust

2 About Vivien Spitz

1924–2014

Vivien Spitz (1924 – April 1, 2014), born Vivien Ruth Putty, was an American court reporter at the Nuremberg trials after World War II. From 1972 to 1982, she was Chief Reporter of Debates in the United States House of Representatives.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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