The Last Gasp

by Scott Christianson

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  Index

  abolition of capital punishment, 175–76, 183–84, 188, 194

  Academy Award for Best Picture, 164

  Adams, Charles Edward, 66

  Adams, Gov. William H., 102

  Adenauer, Konrad, 170

  Agnes, Angelo, 116

  Agnew, Vice President Spiro T., 203

  Aguilar, Frank, 114, 115

  Air Reduction Company, 66

  Aktion Reinhard, 155

  Aktion T4, 149–52

  Alabama, 44, 110, 143

  Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, 141

  Alien Enemy Act, 60

  Alien Property Custodian, 60–61, 65–66

  Allen, Steve, 188

  Alley, Major Charles R., 75

  Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation, 137–38

  Allied Expeditionary Forces, 49

  American Chemical Society, 42–43, 44, 68, 71

  American Civil Liberties Union, 205, 206, 217

  American Correctional Association, 184

  American Cyanamid, 6, 8, 10, 61–62, 64, 65, 76, 92, 94, 97, 129, 130, 137–38, 153, 154, 167, 168

  American Defense Society, 67

  American Eugenics Society, 122

  American Euthanasia Society, 122, 136

  American Expeditionary Forces, 44

  American-German collaboration, 11, 60–61, 64–66, 98, 126, 128, 130, 135–36, 168–69

  American IG Chemical Corporation, 128

  American Jewish Congress, 118

  American Journal of Psychiatry, 136

  American Journal of Public Health, 135–36

  American League to Abolish Capital Punishment, 171, 184

  American Legion, 68, 71

  American Liberty League, 130

  American Museum of Natural History, 130, 135

  American Psychiatric Association, 136

  American University, 44, 45

  American Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, 158

  Amherst College, 126

  Amsterdam, Anthony, 200–201

  Anderson, Burt, 107

  Angel Island, California, 93

  Angola, Louisiana, 214

  Animal euthanasia, 25, 31

  animal experiments, 23–24, 25, 41, 46, 78, 106, 109

  Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, 192

  anti-Semitism, 87, 119, 122, 129, 158, 163–64, 177

  Anzeiger für Schädlingskunde, 131

  Applied Eugenics, 32, 88

  Archer, Rosalie, 187, 189

  Arendt, Hannah, 191

  Arizona, 3, 12, 100–101, 102, 106, 107, 117, 126, 176, 188, 206, 215–16, 218, 221, 227–29

  Arizona Supreme Court, 106, 107

  Arkansas, 201

  Armantrout, Warden Bill, 222

  Armistice, 47, 50, 51

  Arridy, Joe, 114–16

  Artkino Pictures, 162

  arsenic, 36, 45

  Asia, 6

  asphyxia, 112, 114, 121, 209, 212, 220–21, 224

  atom bomb, 44, 125, 164, 169, 170, 177

  Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, 4, 11, 12, 120, 152–55, 158, 166, 169, 177, 182, 191, 212–13

  Austria, 134, 137

  autofumer, 77–78

  autopsy, 82

  Babcock, John R., 189–90

  Baker, Newton D., 42

  Baldus, David C., 215

  Baltimore, Maryland, 47

  Balzar, Sheriff Fred, 70

  Banaczyk, Wladyslaw, 157

  Baptist, 179

  Barbie, Klaus, 170

  Barcroft, John, 41, 58

  Barnes, Harry Elmer, 178

  Bartlett, Harry L., 63

  Basel, Switzerland, 168

  Battle of the Somme, 41
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  Baur, E., 87

  Baze v. Rees, 12

  Becker, Dr. August, 150

  Belgium, 175

  Bell, William Brown, 65, 97, 129

  Bellevue Hospital, 135

  Belongia, Leonardo Lee, 108

  Belżec death camp, 152, 155–56

  Bendersky, Joseph W., 163

  Ben Hur Motor Company, 48

  Benko, Paul V., 219

  Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, 166, 177

  Berkeley, California, 122, 190

  Berlin, 37, 48, 50, 53, 131, 135, 136, 169

  “Berlin blue acid,” 59

  Berlin Olympics, 129, 133, 136, 170

  Bernard, Claude, 23–25

  Best, Warden Roy, 102–7, 115–16

  Biloxi, Mississippi, 179

  Bing Kung Tony, 69

  Bird, Kai, 159

  Birth control, 31, 32

  Bishop, Jesse Walter, 207–28

  Black, Edwin, 136

  “Black Dahlia,” 186

  Blackmun, Justice Harry, 217

  “Black Tom” case, 127, 129

  blacks, 5, 28, 101, 110–14, 116, 117, 118, 123, 141–43, 146, 164, 178–80, 191, 213–15

  Bleyer, Dr. J. Mount, 29

  Boers, 89

  Boies, Henry M., 30

  boll weevil, 56

  Bolshevik, 32

  Bonaparte, Napoleon, 9, 29

  Boren, Gov. David, 205

  Bosch, Carl, 37

  Bost, W. T., 111

  Boston Brahmin, 32

  Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 26

  Boughton, Gov. J. Melville, 145

  Bouhler, Philipp, 149

  Boyle, Gov. Emmet D., 63, 71, 79

  Brack, Viktor, 151

  Brandenburg State Hospital and Nursing Home, 150–51

  Brando, Marlon, 188

  Brandt, Dr. Karl, 149, 150

  Braun, Frederick W., 66, 268n68

  Brazil, 190

  Brennan, Justice William J., Jr., 200, 202, 208

  Bridges, R. L., 111

  Bright, Stephen, 213

  British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 157, 213

  British Military Tribunal, 167

  Brodie, Howard, 196–98

  Bronx Zoo, 31

  Brown, Gov. Edmund G., 188, 194, 195

  Brown Brothers, 126

  Brown v. Board of Education, 178

  Bruce, T. Berry, 210–11

  Buchalter, Louis “Lepke,” 158

  Buchenwald concentration camp, 152, 161