[A physician survivor described how] “they did what they could, dispensed the few aspirin they had, but made a point in the process of offering a few words of reassurance and hope. He found, almost to his surprise, that his words had effect,...that by maintaining one’s determination to try to heal, even under the most extreme conditions, “I was impressed with how much one could do.“

Robert Jay Lifton, The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide, 2000, p. 504.