"This thoughtful, thorough, and nuanced study rejects easy answers...Instead, the author seeks to explain how training, organization, and retraining under the Nazis prepared nurses to participate in murder."
Choice "In this groundbreaking book, McFarland-Icke has taken an important step in revealing how trained medical professionals killed in spite of a guilty conscience and carried out this task with precision, efficiency, and ... Read morewithout comment."
The Lancet "McFarland-Icke does a superb job of remaining objective, avoiding the simplistic stereotyping of her subjects as singularly evil or morally weak-willed, without in any way compromising judgement about the evil of the acts they committed. This work is not entirely one of historiography, nor psychological analysis, nor moral appraisal. It is instead a narrative deepened and enriched by her very thoughtful analysis of context, human responses to unsolvable dilemmas, and moral vulnerability."
Barbara J. Daly, Medical Humanities Review Show Less