The Nazi Doctors' Atrocities: A Chilling Account of Human Experiments During the Holocaust

Frieda: I don't know if they were FROM Hell, but I know that they are there now! How they could believe that the atrocities they inflicted on concentration camp inmates was not wrong, I surely don't know. I've read many books written about this Era, including fiction, fiction based on a real person's story, & non-fiction, & I must say that this reporting of the trials held in Nuremberg is staggering as it tells of the lack of empathy, actually lack of thought, about their involuntary specimens! The doctors simply didn't think of the inmates as humans! "Who cares if I shoot up 20 of them with typhus & 12 of them die? It's not like they're real people!" The more I read, the more I learn, & the sicker I get. My uncle was a member of the Dachau liberating force, so while my husband was stationed nearby, at Augsburg, we took my mother there to the Museum & Memorial. Several areas, I got chills. To think, Dachau was Hitler's "Showcase Camp"! I don't know how he kept it known as such, but this record proves it wasn't as stellar as he made it out to be. I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the Holocaut & WWII in general.

United States on Jun 13, 2023

frustrated: Vivien Spitz weaves a past from history into a short but intense time in the history of mankind. She goes into the tortures of the experiments, without filling the horror with blood and gore. The excerpts from the Nuremburg Trials further filled us with the calculated destruction of these people and did not care how much they suffered. Once you start reading the Doctors from Hell it is hard to put it down until the end. It comes with large print and is easy to read. I give this author and her book five stars, and a big thank you for discussing a part of the insanity that very little of the dark was parted to show the light. Well orth the money.

Canada on Apr 28, 2023

Bellringer: I say incredible because the depths to which human beings can sink never ceases to amaze me. One would think with modern communications history would never repeat itself. Too sadly it constantly does. I find it at 66yrs that Good and evil are things which must exist to explain this.

United Kingdom on Jun 30, 2022

Brendan: Whatever you do don’t eat this over dinner because it’s likely your dinner will become the dogs dinner, on the floor.
Extremely insightful, and morbidly depressing, to know of the crimes committed during those times. It’s honestly hard to fathom how one human could do such things to another under the blanket of servitude. Disgusting

Australia on Apr 25, 2020

Nikolas Larum: Adolf Hitler was a cruel, self-centered man driven by demonic dreams of grandeur. It is no wonder, then, that the German medical establishment that his National Socialist Party co-opted pursued their "scientific" aims with a sadistic and brutal methodology that negated much, if not all, the vaulted aims of the enterprise. Vivien Spitz was a court reporter at Nuremberg. As a young woman, she spent nearly two years hearing first hand testimony from medical experiment survivors, coerced concentration camp "health" workers, and accused state medical personnel. The experience haunted her the rest of her long and productive life. Her book is a strong antidote against the poison of Holocaust denial.

United States on Aug 13, 2018

Marcos Fernando: Muy interesante el hecho de contar con testimonios de los juicios en documentos oficiales, imágenes muy pocas pero suficientes para tener una mejor visión de lo ocurrido. Muy importante que además de los juicios, se relata parte de la posguerra. Muy recomendable!!!

Mexico on Feb 26, 2018

Luis A B S: This book made me uncomfortable. I think that was the objective of it. Cannot complain, though, that was sort of what I was looking for. I hear things about holocaust deniers all the time, and while I think they are outright wrong I could never give an opinion about it. This book started a study about the nazi enterprizes and I have a more clear picture of the kind of "science" they wre doing, which fills me with dread.
The tale told is disgusting. The book, though, is a magnificient way to share enlightment about a very dark, very ugly time in human race experience. Read it. Besides well written, it will probably refrain people from ever doing those awful things again.

Brazil on Apr 07, 2016

Martin H. Block: On April 1, 2014 I learned that the author of Doctor's from Hell, Vivien Spitz, had passed away at the age of 89. As a retired court reporter and Past President of the National Court Reporters Association, I had the distinct honor of knowing Ms. Spitz.

When I remember Vivien Spitz I remember her as almost three distinct persons ineluctably and forever connected. There is the Vivien Spitz whose accomplishments as a shorthand reporter radiated a degree of professional excellence that is at the high water mark for all shorthand reporters. Then there is the Vivien Spitz who shorthand reportres will always love and remember as the kind and considerate fellow professional who shared so much of her professional life with us. And finally, there is the Vivien Spitz who witnessed what few Americans would ever witness, an evil that in the final chapter of her brilliant memoirs attributable to her two years as the youngest shorthand reporter at the Nuremburg trials she describes in the words of Justice Robert H. Jackson, “The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored...

United States on Apr 18, 2014

David Seaman: Most of us do not know who Vivien Spitz is, though with one sentence of explanation we should all nod our head and say, "My God, really?" Vivien Spitz, among many other things, is a court reporter who dedicated her life from the age of twenty-one through her retirement taking down the words and actions of judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys and witnesses in court rooms around the world. In addition, she has been a spokesman for humanity, a teacher of history, a witness herself because Vivien Spitz served as a court reporter at the Nuremberg Trials just after World War II. So now, for the first time in her life, Vivien Spitz is an author and her memoir is much more than a memoir. It's titled "Doctors From Hell; the Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans". Viven Spitz was a first hand witness to the Nuremberg Trials.This book is one of the most important books to be written in the last 200 years.
There are literally thousands of books written about the Holocaust. Many are non-fiction, such as Elie Weisel's "Night" and many are fiction, such as William Styron's "Sophie's Choice." Recently the children's book, "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" changed the understanding of...

United States on Nov 05, 2012