This book explores the psychological conditions that promote the human potential for evil, relating medical killing to broader principles of doubling and genocide.

The book of Genesis tells us that God made a covenant with Abraham, promising him a glorious posterity on the condition that he and all his male descendents must be circumcised. For thousands of years thereafter, the distinctive practice of circumcision served to set the Jews apart from their neighbors. The apostle Paul rejected it as a worthless practice, emblematic of Judaism's fixation on physical matters. Christian theologians followed his lead, arguing that whereas Christians sought spiritual fulfillment, Jews remained mired in such pointless concerns as diet and circumcision. As time went on, Europeans developed folklore about malicious Jews who performed sacrificial murders of Christian children and delighted in genital mutilation. But Jews held unwaveringly to the belief that being a Jewish male meant being physically circumcised and to this day even most non-observant Jews continue to follow this practice. In this book, Leonard B. Glick offers a history of Jewish and Christian beliefs about circumcision from its ancient origins to the current controversy. By the turn of the century, more and more physicians in America and England--but not, interestingly, in continental Europe--were performing the procedure routinely. Glick shows that Jewish American physicians were and continue to be especially vocal and influential champions of the practice which, he notes, serves to erase the visible difference between Jewish and gentile males. Informed medical opinion is now unanimous that circumcision confers no benefit and the practice has declined. In Jewish circles it is virtually taboo to question circumcision, but Glick does not flinch from asking whether this procedure should continue to be the defining feature of modern Jewish identity.

"The extraordinary story of the Nazi-era scientific genius who discovered how cancer cells eat-and what it means for how we should. The Nobel laureate Otto Warburg-a cousin of the famous finance Warburgs-was widely regarded in his day as one of the most important biochemists of the twentieth century, a man whose research was integral to humanity's understanding of cancer. He was also among the most despised figures in Nazi Germany. As a Jewish homosexual living openly with his male partner, Warburg represented all that the Third Reich abhorred. Yet Hitler and his top advisors dreaded cancer, and protected Warburg in the hope that he could cure it"--

This amazing story of World War 2 chronicles the carrer of Dr Felix Kersten, physicain to the high-demon of the Third Reich, Heinrich Himmler. Kersten, an alternative medicine specialist, could alleviate Himmler's severe stomach pains with his hands, using massage and manipulation. In return, Kersten bargained with Himmler to order the release of innocent prisoners condemned to die. By war's end, thanks to Kersten, thousands of jews and other prisoners had eluded the fate of the concentration camp. This is a memorable account of a little-known miracle of World War 2.

Hilliard (born Robert Hilliard Levine), a former U.S. soldier in occupied Germany, describes the continuing genocide-by-neglect of Holocaust survivors. The latter had little or no food, clothing, or medicine; they were interned behind barbed wire, as if they were still being held by the Nazis. Their pain was increased by the favoritism shown by the U.S. Military Government toward former Nazis and their sympathizers. Letters sent by the author and by his friend, Edward Herman, came to the attention of Earl G. Harrison, whom President Truman sent to investigate the situation. Truman ordered General Eisenhower to change American policy, and this was done. Includes a description of events at a hospital in St. Ottilien where American antisemitism was rampant, until the reactions of the DPs and of American Jews helped pressure the Americans to improve the situation.

Relates the life story of Josef Mengele and quotes from the testimonies of twin children who were the victims of his sadistic pseudo-medical experiments in Auschwitz. They speak about the complicated psychological problems which they confronted after the war, and which caused their silence in the 1950s-70s. In 1984 the organization of surviving twins, CANDLES, was established, which organized a trip to Auschwitz in 1985 and publicized their reminiscences.