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Homo homini lupus (Man is a wolf to man).

Paul Chodoff, MD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1970;22(1):78-87.

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THE BLOODY chronicles of recorded history have, time after time, demonstrated the truth of this bitter adage, but never more clearly than in the treatment of the Jewish minority under their control by the German Nazis of the hitlerian reich. Therefore, in a symposium on the psychological aspects of stress, the concentration camp experience can serve as a paradigm of how the human organism reacts to stressful conditions which approach the outermost limits of human adaptability.

All of the concentration camps set up by the Geheime Staats Polizei (SS) in Germany and occupied Europe were not alike and the differences between extermination camps and labor camps were certainly significant. However, the conditions faced by the inmates of all concentration camps can only be described, in the words A.P.J. Taylor, as "loathsome beyond belief." In addition to the out-and-out extermination measures, the physical stresses endured by the prisoners included . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Washington, DC

From the Department of Psychiatry, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication June 30, 1969.

Read before the Symposium on the Psychological Aspects of Stress at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Va, April 23, 1969, under the auspices of Medical Education for National Defense.

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