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With clarity and restraint, Spitz reveals how Nazi physicians, sworn to heal, became agents of torture and death in the name of science, patriotism, and personal ambition. Drawing directly from courtroom testimony, the book documents the crimes of 23 doctors and medical assistants who conducted brutal experiments on concentration camp inmates. Victims were forced into high-altitude chambers without oxygen, subjected to amputations and transplant experiments, deliberately wounded and infected with typhus, exposed to mustard gas, or left untreated to compare medical outcomes. In one of the most chilling cases, 112 Jewish inmates were murdered so their skeletons could be collected for study. Spitz supports this account with rare trial transcripts and previously unpublished photographs used as evidence, materials long inaccessible to the public. Her factual, unsensational style allows the horror to speak for itself. A powerful foreword by Dr. Frederick R. 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