Edited by Dieter Kuntz and Susan Bachrach. 226 pp., illustrated. Washington, D.C., United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2004. $45. ISBN 0-8078-2916-1.
Myths often serve a protective role by providing comfort sothat deeply held convictions are not challenged. With respectto medicine in the Third Reich, two such myths are the beliefsthat only marginal physicians in extreme situations participatedin crimes against humanity and that the practice of German mainstreammedicine was not corrupted by the surrounding maelstrom. Scholarly,comprehensive works by Robert Lifton, Robert N. Proctor, MichaelH. Kater, and Henry Friedlander, among others, have done muchto lay to rest these myths.
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