Robert Jay Lifton - “Genocidal Mentality: Nazi Doctors and the Holocaust“

Robert Jay Lifton, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at John Jay College, City University of New York, is renowned in three disciplines: history, psychology, and sociology. His honors include the Gandhi Peace Award (1984), the National Book Award for sciences (1969), and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for history (1987). Among Lifton’s more than twenty books are two major contributions to Holocaust literature: The Nazi Doctors and The Genocidal Mentality. In his lecture during HMW 1996, Lifton combined insights from these two works.