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O farmacêutico de Auschwitz (Portuguese Edition) Kindle Edition
A história real de como as gigantes da indústria farmacêutica alemã apoiaram o regime nazista, fizeram fortunas com as câmaras de gás e usaram cobaias nos campos de concentração para desenvolver medicamentos que usamos até hoje.
O farmacêutico de Auschwitz é uma história real de assassinato e ganância que narra fatos terríveis e ainda obscuros sobre o Holocausto e o Terceiro Reich em um estilo que lembra o dos melhores thrillers. Baseada em uma vasta pesquisa, Patricia Posner expõe as atrocidades cometidas por um dos maiores conglomerados farmacêuticos do mundo, detentor de marcas que aparecem em nossos lares até os dias de hoje, como a Bayer e a Hoechst, investigando como homens comuns se tornaram criminosos de guerra e como a Alemanha do pós-guerra foi obrigada a confrontar seu passado sombrio.
Uma obra emocionante e necessária, o livro conta a pouco conhecida história de Victor Capesius, um farmacêutico romeno representante da Bayer que, em 1943, aos 35 anos, se juntou a SS nazista e rapidamente se tornou o farmacêutico-chefe de Auschwitz, o maior e mais cruel campo de extermínio do Terceiro Reich. Entre suas várias atribuições perversas, estavam os testes relacionados à criação de uma maneira rápida e eficaz de exterminar prisioneiros indesejáveis, até chegar ao gás letal que matou milhões.
Patricia Posner faz também uma fascinante análise do pacto diabólico travado entre nazistas e grandes corporações. A autora expõe como a I.G. Farben – empresa-mãe da Bayer e maior conglomerado industrial da Alemanha –, além de fornecer o gás que matou milhões de judeus, testava drogas em prisioneiros e construiu seu próprio campo, onde escravos trabalhavam até a morte.
“Chocante e revelador. Um marco na história da Segunda Guerra Mundial.”
Washington Post
“A combinação perfeita de pesquisas exaustivas e uma prosa eletrizante, que arrepiará o leitor da primeira até a última página e com toda a certeza o acompanhará muito depois de ter terminado o livro.”
The New York Times
- LanguagePortuguese
- PublisherGlobo Livros
- Publication dateAugust 23, 2018
- File size18888 KB
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- ASIN : B07GSK6VSB
- Publisher : Globo Livros; 1st edition (August 23, 2018)
- Publication date : August 23, 2018
- Language : Portuguese
- File size : 18888 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- Word Wise : Not Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 403 pages
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About the author
I am London born, having spent half my life in Britain and half in the United States.
For thirty years I have worked on 12 books of investigative historical nonfiction with my husband, bestselling author Gerald Posner. On those projects, I conduct every interview with him, sift through thousands of pages of original documents in government and private archives, and work on the early drafts of manuscripts and also the editing. As a 2009 St. Petersburg Times profile of Gerald correctly noted: "Trisha Posner works with him on his books and joins him in his interviews, but refuses co-author credit."
I have always been greatly interested in the history surrounding World War II and the Holocaust. I had been long been fascinated by the mostly untold story of Victor Capesius, an ethnic German from Romania who ended up as the chief pharmacist at Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration camp. I learned about him in 1985 when working with Gerald on his biography of the Nazi Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele (Mengele). During later projects assisting Gerald I was able to delve further into World War II and the Holocaust. In 1991 there was a book collection of interviews with the children of Nazi perpetrators (Hitler’s Children); in 1994 a New Yorker article "Letter from Berlin: Secrets of the Files," in which Gerald and I were two of the last researchers allowed full access to the millions of Nazi party membership files in the Berlin Document Center prior to the U.S. transfer of those papers to German custody; and in 2015 another book investigation, this time into the Vatican Bank and how the Catholic Church profited from the Holocaust by secret investments into German and Italian insurance companies that escheated the life insurance policies of Jews sent to Auschwitz (God’s Bankers).
While collecting information about Capesius over the years, I also launched my own solo writing career. In the late 1990s I started a monthly column about developments in women’s health. Having come from a family with a long history of breast cancer, I was highly skeptical of the general pharmaceutical and medical advice that all women should rely on hormone replacement (HRT) for menopause. In 2000, Random House/Villard published my memoir casting doubts on the efficacy of universally prescribed HRT and presented my program for passing through menopause naturally. In 2003, after the landmark medical study, the Women's Health Initiative, was published and confirmed many of the alarming health risks I had addressed in my book, Villard published an updated paperback titled No Hormones, No Fear.
From 2005 to 2007 I wrote two columns for Miami's Ocean Drive magazine, one about developments in health and the other covering everything from local politics to battles over historic preservation to a much cited profile of magazine editor Tina Brown. I have also written for Salon, Huffington Post, and The Daily Beast, as well as having appeared to discuss my reporting, among others, on NBC's TODAY, FOX's The O'Reilly Factor, and MSNBC.
My biography about Capesius (The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story) is the ideal juncture for my interest in the history about World War II and the Holocaust and my earlier reporting about the pharmaceutical industry and public health. Capesius, a national sales representative for Bayer Pharmaceuticals before the war in Romania, found himself at Auschwitz selecting his former Jewish medical customers for the gas chambers and overseeing some of the medical experiments funded by German Pharma. After the war, with enough dental gold he had stolen from Auschwitz, he opened a pharmacy.
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Reviewed in Brazil on March 12, 2024
O farmacêutico Victor Capesius é analisado a partir de sua breve biografia antes da guerra, e é oferecida a leitura de seu comportamento e de sua participação direta nos eventos mais brutais no campo de Auschwitz, na condição de farmacêutico responsável, a partir de relatos de pessoas que trabalharam diretamente com ele, prisioneiros que o reconheceram na rampa de seleção para as câmaras de gás e outros documentos analisados. Inclusive, o livro retrata que ele foi o principal responsável pela administração dos estoques do Zyklon B.
De um farmacêutico que trabalhava na farmácia de um parente à ladrão de dentes de ouro extraído das vítimas, de sujeito pouco envolvido em política à julgado por participar ativamente do extermínio de seres humanos, o livro percorre várias etapas desse personagem pouco conhecido pelo público brasileiro.
O livro é de fácil leitura e o conteúdo envolvido na exposição de cada tema revela a riqueza dessa obra que certamente despertará a ira e a indignação do leitor ao confrontar tamanhos crimes contra a humanidade.