Starting with coercive sterilization, proceeding to the killing of children and then adults; medical reasonings were used to justify the actions of Nazi doctors.
The progression of the killings began legally with sterilization laws and then turned into illegal actions that were permitted by the government.
The ideology driven by Adolf Hitler received so much support from doctors and Nazis that it was possible for them to set up concentration camps in which mass medical killings occurred.
After the genocide was discovered, and the Holocaust was ended, people were left in disbelief as to how such actions of crime could have undergone and for so long.
Lifton explores the behavior individually and collectively of the doctors and discusses how the socialization to killing could have come about.