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Volume 352:1511-1513 April 14, 2005 Number 15 Next

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This is one of those stories that invite fear.

Now we know. During the period of the past century that I call Night, medicine was practiced in certain places not to heal but to harm, not to fight off death but to serve it.

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In the conflict between Good and Evil during the Second World War, the infamous Nazi doctors played a crucial role. They preceded the torturers and assassins in the science of organized cruelty that we call the Holocaust. There is a Talmudic adage, quite disturbing, that applies to them: Tov she-barofim le-gehinom — "The . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Professor Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. He is a university professor of religion and philosophy at Boston University, Boston. Sixty years ago, on April 11, 1945, he was liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp.

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