Friday, August 07, 2015

Affected

They [the SS doctors] did their work just as someone who goes to an office goes about his work. They were gentlemen who came and went, who supervised and were relaxed, sometimes smiling, sometimes joking, but never unhappy. They were witty if they felt like it. Personally I did not get the impression that they were much affected by what was going on--nor shocked. It went on for years. It was not just one day.     
--Auschwitz prisoner doctor    
           
Quoted in Robert Jay Lifton, "The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing And The Psychology Of Genocide", p. 193

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