The Importance of Medical Doctors in the Holocaust

Doctors like Marvon Verschure were key advocates throughout the escalating process of preparing the German state to carry out genocide. Mengele's first job, and the first job of all SS doctors at Auschwitz, was to sort new arrivals to the camp. The trains would arrive packed full of starving, desperate people, often jammed in with the corpses of their loved ones who had starved or died of illness after days stuck in a dank, airless train car without access to sanitation. They would be marched out and sorted by a man like Mengele. So that's why these doctors are there, right? They are seeing through the future health of the race by exterminating people,. That