Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2023-04-13

Books mentioned on Part Two: Josef Mengele & The Nazi Doctors

3 books · With Matt Lieb · Listen · Watch on YouTube

Matt and Robert continue their discussion of Joey Mengs, and the collapse of the German Medical Establishment into Nazi terror. FOOTNOTES: https://revistapesquisa.

Robert Evans discussed A Quiet Flame by Philip Kerr, Mengele by Gerald L. Posner and others, Racial hygiene, and Mengele by David G. Marwell.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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  1. A Quiet Flame

    Philip Kerr · at 20:47

    Discussed
    “There's a series of detective books that I read from time to time, the Bernie Gunther books, which are about a detective who is not a Nazi but is first in the Weimar State and then in the Nazi State.”
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  2. Mengele

    Gerald L. Posner; John Ware · at 25:51

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    “as Gerald Posner writes the man who gave Mengele his first real leg up on the academic ladder was Professor T mullinson of Munich University”
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  3. Racial hygiene

    Proctor, Robert · at 29:52

    Racial Hygiene by Robert Proctor is a historical examination of medicine and public health policies under the Nazi regime in Germany.

    Discussed
    “and I'm in a quote now from the book racial hygiene medicine under the Nazis in the Third Reich twin studies were lavishly funded as part of an effort to prove that heredity was the key to many human talents and Imperfections”
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  4. Mengele

    David G. Marwell · at 36:16 · mentioned 2 times

    Discussed
    “yeah I'm gonna quote now from Mengele unmasking the angel of death mengele's examination included where possible a comparison of 12 different areas including blood type and factors eyes and eyebrows as well as finger and Footprints”
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