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Selected bibliography from Lagnado’s “Children of the Flames,” which deals with Josef Mengele’s experiments at Auschwitz, and which contains personal testimonies from surviving twins – typos are mine:
I. Books and Dissertations
Allen, William Sheridan. The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German town 1930-1935. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1965
Arendt, Hannah. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. New York: Penguin, 1963
Bernardac, Christian. L’Holocauste Oublie. Paris: Editions France-Empire, 1979
Dabringhaus, Erhard. Klaus Barbie: The Shocking Story of How the U.S. Used This Nazi War Criminal as an Intelligence Agent. Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books, 1985
Dawidowicz, Lucy S. The War Against the Jews 1933-1945. New York: Bantam Books, 1976
Farago, Ladislas. Aftermath: Martin Bormann and the Fourth Reich. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974
Fenelon, Fania. The Musicians of Auschwitz. London: Michael Joseph, 1986
Hart, Kitty. Return to Auschwitz. New York: Atheneum, 1982
Harel, Isser. The House on Garibaldi Street. New York: Viking Press, 1975
Hausner, Gideon. Justice in Jerusalem. New York: Harper and Row, 1966
Hitler, Adolf. Mein Kampf, trans. Ralph Manheim. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1943
Hoss, Rudolf, Perry Broad and Johann Paul Kremer. KL Auschwitz Seen by the SS. New York: Howard Fertig, 1984
Kevles, Daniel J. In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985
Lengyel, Olga. Five Chimneys. New York: Howard Fertig, 1983
Lifton, Robert Jay. The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide. London: Macmillan, 1986
Mosse, George L. The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1964
Newton, Ronald C. German Buenos Aires 1900-1933: Social Change and Cultural Crisis. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1977
Mu”ller-Hill, Benno. Todliche Wissenschaft: Die Aussonderung von Juden, Zigeunern und Geisteskranken 1933-1945. Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1984
Nomberg-Przytyk, Sara. Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land, ed. Eli Pfefferkorn and David H. Hirsch. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985
Nyiszli, Dr. Miklos. Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account. New York: Frederick Fell, 1960
Page, Joseph. Peron: a Bibliography. New York: Random House, 1983
Perl, Gisella. I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz. New York: International Universities Press, 1948
Posner, Gerald L., and John Ware. Mengele: The Complete Story. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1986
Pridham, Geoffrey. Hitler’s Rise to Power: The Nazi Movement in Bavaria 1923-1933. New York: Harper and Row, 1973
Speer, Albert. Inside the Third Reich – Memoirs. Trans. Richard and Carla Winston. New York: Collier Books, 1970
Steven, Stewart. Spymasters of Israel. New York: Macmillan, 1980
Thomann, Klaus-Dieter. Medizin im Faschismus. Berlin: Veb Verlag Volk und Gesundheit, 1985
Weinreich, Max. Hitler’s Professors. New York: Yiddish Scientific Institute – YIVO, 1946
Wiesel, Eli. Night. New York: Bantam Books, 1982
Wiesenthal, Simon. The Murderers Among Us. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967
Zofka, Zdenek. Die Ausbreitung des Nationalsozialismus auf dem Lande: Eine Regionale Fallstudie zur Politiscehn Einstellung der Landbevolkerung in der Zeit des aufstiegs und der Machtergreifung der NSDAP 1928-1936. (Published dissertation) Munich: Stadtarchiv Munchen, 1979
II. Newspapers, Journals, and Periodicals
Anderson, Jack. “The Twins of Auschwitz Today” sept. 4, 1984
Anderson, Jack, and Joseph Spear. “Son Trades on Father’s Infamy.” Washington Merry-Go-Round syndicated column, August 29, 1985
Blumenthal, Ralph. “Mengele Family Members Are United In Their Silence.” New York Times, June 11, 1985, p. 4
Boozer, Jac S. “Children of Hippocrates: Doctors in Nazi Germany.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 450, July 1980, p. 84
Byhan, Inge. Mengele Series, Parts I-V. Bunte, summer 1985. Archives of Burda Publications, Munich, Germany
Drozdiak, William. “Mengele Family Plans To Issue Statement.” Washington Post, June 11, 1985
Friedman, Thomas L. “Jerusalem Listens to the Victims of Mengele.” New York Times, February 7, 1985
Freidrich, Otto. “The Kingdom of Auschwitz.” Atlantic Monthly, September 1981, pp. 30-60
Helmuth, G. “Die Vererbung Als Biologischer Vorgant.” Der Weg, undated (believed to be from 1953), courtesy of Stern.
House, Richard. “Woman Says Mengele Spent 1961-1979 in Brazil.” Washington Post, June 9, 1985, pp. 1, 28
House, Richard. “Probers Say Proof Mounts That Mengele Was in Brazil.” Washington Post, June 11, 1985, pp. 1, 14 Jerusalem Post. July 10, 1964 (Frankfurt trial brief); Jerusalem Post. August 18, 1964 (Frankfurt trial brief)
Lewis, Paul. “Couple Will Face a German Inquiry on Aid to Mengele.” New York Times, June 10, 1985
Markham, James M. “Mengele `Double’ Called Fervid Nazi.” New York Times, June 13, 1985
Mathews, Jay. “Researchers Find Signs U.S. Knew of Mengele’s Hideout.” Washington Post, March 15, 1985, p. 24
Meyer, Ernie. “Mother Testifies How She Killed Her Baby.” Jerusalem Post, August 2, 1985
“Paraguay Keeps Mengele Comfortable – Wiesenthal,” Jerusalem Post, Aust 18, 1977
Reuters News Service. “Bormann Said Seen With Mengele.” Jerusalem Post, July 19, 1964
Reuters News Service. “Bonn Told: Mengele is citizen of Paraguay.” Jerusalem Post, August 21, 1964
Riding, Alan. “Woman Says Man Who Admitted He Was Dr. Mengele Died in 1979.” New York Times, June 9, 1985, p. 16
Shub, Anatole. (Missing title) Washington Post, August 20, 1965, p. 13
Soble, Ronald. “U.S. Secrecy Keeps Cloud of Doubt Over Mengele Death.” Los Angeles Times, March 3, 1989, p. 26
Thomann, Klaus-Dieter. “Racial Hygiene and Anthropology: Professor Verschuer’s Twin Careers.” Frankfurter Rundschau, May 21, 1985. p. 8
Watson, Russell, Mac Margolis, and Andrew Nagorski. “Who Helped Mengele?” Newsweek, June 24, 1985, pp. 40-45
Whitefield, Mimi. “Reports Say Alleged Nazi Lived Life of Ease.” Boston Globe, June 9, 1985, pp. 1, 20
“The Mengele Mystery.” Times, June 24, p. 40
“U.S. Agrees Mengele is Dead.” Associated Press, August 3, 1985
III. Personal Papers of Dr. Josef Mengele
Diaries of Dr. Josef Mengele, 1962-1978 (courtesy Stern)
Letters of Dr. Josef Mengele to family and friends, dates unknown (Stern)
Notebooks of Dr. Josef Mengele, dates unknown (Stern)
IV. Archival Material
Unpublished documents and reports in possession of:
Auschwitz Museum, Auschwitz, Poland
Berlin Document Center, Berlin, Germany
B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation League archives, New York
Polish Commission for the Investigation of War Crimes, courtesy Polish archives, Warsaw, Poland
U.S. Justice Department, Office of Special Investigations files, Washington, D.C.
U.S. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
U.S. State Department, Washington, D.C.
Work Cited
Lagnado, Lucette Matalon and Sheila Cohn Dekel. Children of the Flames. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc. 1991
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