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[JTA]
Robert Jay Lifton, pioneering scholar of Nazi doctors and Jewish memory,
dies at 99
Robert Jay Lifton, the psychiatrist and public intellectual whose groundbreaking work on the psychology of genocide shaped Holocaust and
Jewish studies for the past 40 years, died on Thursday at his home in
Truro, Massachusetts. He was 99.
Lifton, who was raised in Brooklyn, the son of Jewish immigrants from
Eastern Europe, devoted his career to exploring the human capacity for
both cruelty and resilience. His 1986 book "The Nazi Doctors: Medical
Killing and the Psychology of Genocide," documented how physicians were enlisted in the machinery of the Holocaust.
Lifton spent a decade interviewing Nazi doctors and concentration camp survivors to piece together the motivations of physicians who carried out horrendous medical experiments and assisted in the extermination of Jews
and others under the Nazis
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