Medicine After The Holocaust also explores the T4 but in a different perspective with present day theory on the psychological effects on physicians that murdered. Michael A. Grodin uses present day theories of the psychological effects to justify why the physicians of Nazi Germany did what they did. Grodin states “in identifying themselves as part of a large machine working to “heal” society, Nazi physicians diffused responsibility to the group rather than taking individual responsibility for their actions (Grodin 2010, 54). The physicians did not see themselves as individuals doing the torturing and murdering but saw themselves as part of an elite and important group that carried out actions towards healing the society. Physicians saw themselves
