Doctors from Hell, Vivien Spitz
Doctors from Hell, Vivien Spitz
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Doctors from Hell
The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans

Author: Vivien Spitz

Narrator: Christina Delaine

Unabridged: 10 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/26/2021

Synopsis

This is the account of torture and murder by experiment in the name of scientific research and patriotism.

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. The witnesses tell of experiments in which they were deprived of oxygen; frozen; injected with malaria, typhus, and jaundice; subjected to the amputation of healthy limbs; forced to drink seawater for weeks at a time; and other horrors.

This landmark trial resulted in the establishment of the Nuremberg Code, which sets the guidelines for medical research involving human beings. Doctors from Hell is a significant addition to the literature on World War II and the Holocaust, medical ethics, human rights, and the barbaric depths to which human beings can descend.

Contains mature themes.

About Vivien Spitz

Vivien Spitz is a Fellow of the Academy of Professional Reporters of the National Court Reporters Association, and was an official reporter of debates and chief reporter in the United States House of Representatives from 1972 to 1982. Mrs. Spitz reported the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials in Germany from 1946 to 1948, including the Nazi Doctors Case. She recorded verbatim the words that came from the mouths of witnesses and victims who survived the heinous experiments "in the name of scientific medical research" conducted by doctors who had taken the Oath of Hippocrates to heal and cure, turned into doctors who became torturers and murderers. Since 1987 she has made presentations on the Nazi Doctors Case of the Nuremberq War Crimes Trials, to over 37,000 people in the United States, Canada, and Singapore using graphic slides of captured German film showing experiments the doctors conducted on concentration camp victims without their consent. Her message is about basic human rights and the dignity of life, the difference between good and evil, and indifference to evil.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paige

The information is provided through the author’s first hand account as a court reporter of the Nazi doctor’s crimes at the Nuremberg trials. She presents the chapters through the different Nazi experiments on humans. For example, there is a chapter on freezing experiments, another chapter on steriliz......more

Goodreads review by Chrissie

A grotesque, but necessary addition to my Holocaust library. The way I felt listening to this audiobook made me wonder how Vivien Spitz, a young Court reporter, got through intact actually being present for the first hand witness accounts. Maybe she didn't entirely, as she had nightmares, and an expe......more

Goodreads review by Rachel

Part recounting of the evidence at the Nuremberg Nazi medical trials, part memoir, and still has details that will shock people who think they know the worst of the atrocities committed by Nazis in concentration camps.......more

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