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...Lifton, 53, had been planning to write about the Holocaust for years, but this opportunity came by chance. Two years ago, the New York Times Book Co., a subsidiary of the newspaper, hired a German jurist as a consultant for a proposed book on Auschwitz. Lifton agreed to write...
...offered a convincing answer, certainly not the participants themselves. Only last week a West Berlin court convicted a former SS doctor of having murdered scores of inmates at the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria-"sometimes out of pure boredom," said the judge. For Yale Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton, who has spent much of his professional life examining disaster, understanding the doctors of the Holocaust has now become a particularly grim challenge...
...author of a notable study of Hiroshima survivors, Death in Life, and other examinations of disaster, Lifton is writing two books: one on Auschwitz doctors, another on the medical profession under Hitler. As Lifton told TIME Associate Editor John Leo, collaboration by doctors was crucial to the Nazis' warped success. Says Lifton: "Doctors were key agents in the Holocaust. They are enormously implicated in the killing...
Financed by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Rockefeller Foundation, Lifton spent ten months in Europe and the Middle East interviewing scores of German doctors, former Nazi bureaucrats and inmate doctors, mostly Jewish and Polish...
...presented any evidence that anyone else helped Ray plot the murder of King or instigated the crime. After reading the various accounts of other writers on Ray's activities before and after the murder, Freelancers Jeff Cohen and David S. Lifton claimed in a New Times article last April that Raoul probably was Ray's brother Jerry, who works at a country club near Chicago. They base that theory-a matter of pure conjecture-on the sequence of Ray's various mentions of both Raoul and his brother in these accounts. They also note that Jerry much...