Healing By Killing
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Nitzan Aviram
Robert Jay Lifton
Nitzam Aviram
Nitzam Aviram
Uri Buzaglo
Yoram Millo
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Synopsis
Dealing with the historical realities of Nazi Germany from an analytical point of view, abjuring the horror footage well-known to today's audiences. The film explores the wider implications of medical ethics, as they bear on such contemporary issues as forced sterilization, genetic engineering, abortion, and capital punishment. In-depth interviews with Lifton (and with an SS doctor who served at Auchwitz and a former prisoner who was Mengele's "medical photographer") give insight into how the Hippocratic oath taken by German doctors was perverted to allow their leadership in the "mercy killings" for which the first gas chambers were developed, and later, the medical aura which surrounded the entire examination process.
Director
Nitzan Aviram
Cast
Robert Jay Lifton
Film Details
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Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States April 22, 1998
Released in United States Spring April 22, 1998
Film was inspired by Robert Jay Lifton's book "Nazi Doctors."
color
dialogue German and English
subtitled English
rtg MPAA NONE
videotape and film to 16mm
Released in United States April 22, 1998 (Film Forum; New York City)
Released in United States Spring April 22, 1998
