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The man with miraculous hands, the incredible story of Himmler's physician who saved thousands of lives, Joseph Kessel ; translated from the French by Helen Weaver and Leo Raditsa ; foreword by Norman Ohler

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The man with miraculous hands

Joseph Kessel ; translated from the French by Helen Weaver and Leo Raditsa ; foreword by Norman Ohler

the incredible story of Himmler's physician who saved thousands of lives

This book chronicles the career of Dr. Felix Kersten, a gifted physician whose most infamous patient was Nazi SS chief Heinrich Himmler. Kersten, an alternative-medicine specialist, could alleviate Himmler's severe and chronic abdominal pain using massage and manipulation, therapy so effective that Himmler came to depend on Kersten for his physical and psychological well being. Kersten boldly used the resulting emotional leverage over Himmler to win release from the fate of the Gestapo for victims of Nazi persecution, first a few at a time, then in increasing numbers until thousands of Jews and other persecuted peoples were saved. The Man with the Miraculous Hands is an account of a little-known miracle of World War II

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