1985, ISBN: 0917657462

[EAN: 9780917657467], [PU: NY. 1985. Donald I. Fine, Inc.], Jacket, black & red 1/2 cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding … More...

[EAN: 9780917657467], [PU: NY. 1985. Donald I. Fine, Inc.], Jacket, black & red 1/2 cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in vg+ cond. rubbed. not torn or price clipped (no price listed). nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. book club edition. decorative frontis. xii+305p. b&w photo illustrations. partial bibliography index. biography. world history. world war ii. nazi germany. third reich. ~ Here is the probing, investigative, insightful account of Auschwitz camp doctor Joseph Mengele, the SS physician who sent thousands of Jews to their deaths in the gas chambers and who tortured hundreds more as part of his "scientific" experiments. Known to millions as "The Angel of Death," Mengele had gained mythic status by the time his remains were uncovered in Embu, Brazil, in May of 1985. It was not only the heinous nature of Mengele's crimes but the enthusiasm with which he carried them out that caused him to be regarded as a larger~than~life figure, an embodiment of absolute evil. Now Gerald Astor strips away the layers of misinformation, disinformation and falsehood that have have grown up around Mengele since his mysterious disappearance in 1945: "Mengele is not a case study in abnormal psychology, as some would have it, or an aberration to be fascinated by, written about but not to be taken in the context of history. To the contrary," the author writes, "Mengele, whatever his extreme characterological predispositions, was part of the mainstream of his nation and its prevailing moods, attitudes and indeed scientific philosophies during the time of his crimes against humanity. He was never a pariah in his own land, and he is not even that among many there today. As Elie Wiesel and others have been trying to tell us, what happened once can happen again, and for the same reasons and with very likely the same victims. Though the breed may, one hopes, be on the wane, the last Nazi will most surely not have perished at Bertioga Beach.", Books<

1985, ISBN: 9780917657467

New York, Donald I. Fine first edition - first print - h/c in d.j. Known to millions as 'The Angel of Death', here is the probing, investigative, insightful account of Auschwitz camp doct… More...

New York, Donald I. Fine first edition - first print - h/c in d.j. Known to millions as 'The Angel of Death', here is the probing, investigative, insightful account of Auschwitz camp doctor Joseph Mengele, the SS pysician who sent thousands of Jews to their deaths in the gas chambers and who tortured hundreds more as part of his 'scientific' experiments. 235 x 160mm., pp xii, 305, b/w plates, biblio., index, contents v.g.+, d.j. sl. rubbed top/bottom spine, small closed tear top back spine, VG. ISBN: 0917657462, New York, Donald I. Fine, 1985, 0<