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Healing By Killing

1998, Movie, NR, 90 mins

Healing By Killing: Review

This fascinating and eye-opening documentary traces the crucial link between 20th-century German medicine, psychiatry and the Holocaust. It doesn't make the genocide any more comprehensible, but it goes a long way towards explaining just how such a thing could have happened. Nitzan Aviram's film is largely based on Robert Jay Lifton's book Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide, in which he examined the ways in which German medical discourse of the 1920... read more leave a comment