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By Wolfgang Weyers, with A. Bernard Ackerman. 442 pp., illustrated. Lanham, Md., Madison Books, 1998. $49.95. ISBN 1-56833-121-5.

How could the Holocaust have occurred? How could the seemingly sophisticated German society of the Weimar Republic permit the rise of the National Socialist Party? How could the new Nazi government nearly destroy the country's medical system in the name of racial purity?

An increasing number of treatises, symposiums, and books have attempted to address these issues. This book succinctly presents the frightening accounts of the destruction of German Jewry from the point of view of the physician and, more particularly, the dermatologist. Antisemitism, a word introduced in 1873, has always existed; it has been more overt at some times . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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