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These memoirs cover the life of the author from his youth in pre-World War II Vienna, his escape from the Germans, a coming-of-age period in Sacramento California to his return to Europe, first in the American army and later as an internationally known scientist. After the German take-over of Austria, life for Viennese Jews deteriorated rapidly. Personal betrayals, arrest of his father by the Gestapo, the pogrom of Kristallnacht and repeated beatings by young Nazi hoodlums was the progression of events that led the boy to leave Vienna for Holland on what has become known as a Kindertransport. There he spent almost a year in a camp for refugee children. Just after the beginning of WWII an alm...
It is 1939. The Nazi invasion of Poland has started World War II. Three ordinary, decent, young Germans join the elite Nazi force, the SS. Johann Helmuth. a Bavarian farmer's son, does so primarily to please his authoritarian, anti-semitic father, but also out of a vague sense of patriotism and a need to belong to a larger group. Herbert Winkler's father runs a small automobile repair shop in a village in the mountains of the former Austria. The son is a confirmed Nazi, willing to sacrifice his life for the Thousand Year Reich and its glorious Fuhrer. The third, Werner Kohler, comes from a sophisticated and very wealthy Berlin family. He is neither an ideologue nor particularly patriotic, bu...
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Hyperthermia as a tool for the treatment of malignant disease is rapidly becoming a clinical reality. In this book I am attempting to summarize the known biological and physical underpinnings that have led to this development. I also present a compilation of existing clinical results, limited as these are. My aim is to provide oncologists and other physicians with up-to-date information on this modality, which is both new and old, as well as to make available to biologists, physicists and engineers sum maries of currently available information on specific areas of hyperthermic research. Many people have helped me with this book. Specifically, thanks are due to Drs. William Dewey, Jean Dutrei...