I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military.
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My father in particular was a progressive person, a person who made his way in this society by attending the City College of New York.
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Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created.
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One reason that I embarked on a study of Nazi doctors was that in this personal journey, I had the feeling increasingly that I did want to do a Holocaust study and that increasingly I wanted it to be of perpetrators, which I thought was more needed.
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I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.
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