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    The Last Gasp

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      Buck v. Bell, 6, 145

      Buena Vista, 198

      Buenos Aires, Argentina, 190

      Buffalo, N.Y., 47, 142

      Building 11, 152, 154

      Bureau of Entomology, 46, 56

      Burger, Chief Justice Warren E., 201, 202, 208

      Burrell, George, 43, 46

      Cabana, Warden Donald, 214

      Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, 126

      calcium cyanide, 97

      calcium sulfate, 152–53

      California, 3, 7, 11, 32, 44, 54, 56, 62, 66, 67, 69–70, 92, 117–22, 146, 176, 178, 180–90, 194, 195–98, 201, 206, 215–25

      California Cyanide Company, 66, 76–78

      California Metal and Mineral Producers Association, 62

      California Supreme Court, 177, 195, 201–3

      Calverton, V. F., 140

      camite, 41

      Campbell, Dr. Clarence G., 135

      Campbell, William, 187

      Campbell v. Wood, 224

      campilite, 41

      Camus, Albert, 192

      Canada, 64, 84, 137, 175, 213, 221–22

      cancer chemotherapy, 58

      Cannon, Robert Lee, 121

      Cañon City, Colorado, 102, 198

      Canterbury, Rev. Kermit, 179–80

      Canton, China, 79

      capitalism, 4, 14, 87

      capital punishment, 11–12, 18, 28, 29, 62–63, 84–85, 100, 134, 141, 171–230

      Capital Punishment Project, 206

      carbon dioxide (carbonic acid), 25, 30, 31

      carbon monoxide, 8, 23–25, 30, 43, 47, 149–52

      carcinogenicity, 59

      Carnegie Foundation, 43

      Carnegie Institution, 37

      Carothers, Wallace Hume, 137

      Carr, Dr. Ransom L., 111

      Carrel, Alexis, 132–33

      Carroll, Paul H. (“Perry”), 116–17

      Carson City, Nevada, 62, 70, 72, 77–86, 99, 102, 118, 207

      Case Concerning the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (Germany v. United States of America), 229

      Casey, William, 161

      Castner-Kellner Process, 98

      casualties, 47–48, 51, 57, 85

      Catalina, Pete, 116

      Catholics, 78, 118, 213

      Catholic University of America, 43, 45

      Cavendish-Bentinck, Victor, 157–58

      Celler, Rep. Emanuel, 158

      Cell 2455, Death Row, 187

      Cell 2455, Death Row, A Condemned Man’s Own Story, 187

      Center for the Study of the Holocaust, 219

      Central Intelligence Agency, 168

      Central Prison, North Carolina, 109, 114, 225

      Chamberlain, Neville, 130

      Chamberlain, Sen. George E., Jr., 54

      Chandler, Raymond, 163

      Chang, W. H., 70

      Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 144–45

      Charleston, West Virginia, 47

      Chase Manhattan Bank, 125

      Chaumont, 44, 49

      Chelmno Concentration Camp (Kulmhof), 109, 152

      Chemical Foundation, 61

      chemical industry, 10, 14, 36–37, 42–43, 52, 55–56, 59–60, 67–68, 89, 92–93, 96–97, 118, 137–38, 168–69, 212

      chemical warfare, 15, 34–52, 54–55, 67, 88–89, 136, 147–48

      chemical warfare research, 40–41, 42–45, 52, 57–58, 95–96, 147–48, 169

      chemical warfare training, 38, 40, 44, 48–49, 147–48

      Chemical Warfare Service. See U.S. Chemical Warfare Service

      “Chemist’s war,” 42

      Chesapeake, 47

      Chessman, Caryl Whittier, 11, 185–90

      Cheyenne, Wyoming, 114–15

      Chicago, 178

      China, 66, 79

      Chinatown, 70

      chlorine, 34–35, 37–39, 45, 47, 56, 58

      chloroform, 29, 32

      chloropicrin, 39–40, 47, 58, 93, 95

      Churchill, Winston, 130, 147, 164

      Civilian Conservation Corps, 110

      civilians, 51

      Civil Rights Congress, 177

      civil rights movement, 176

      Civil War, 36

      Clark, Gene, 179

      Clark, Surgeon General Taliaferro, 92

      class, 5, 13–14

      Clay, Gen. Lucius D., 170

      Clemmer, Donald, 16

      Cleveland, Ohio, 48, 51

      Clinton, President Bill, 229

      Clinton Engineer Works, 169

      Cobb, Ty, 48–49

      Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., 28

      Coleman, Dr. George S., 111

      Cologne, Germany, 38, 168, 170

      Colorado, 3, 71, 101, 102–9, 112, 116, 117, 145–46, 176, 178, 198–99, 206, 208, 212

      Colorado River, 44

      Colorado State Home & Training School for Mental Defectives, 114

      Colorado State Penitentiary, 102

      Colorado State Supreme Court, 105

      Columbia University, 131

      Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, 66

      Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives, 62

      communist, 13, 67–68, 122–23, 134, 139, 162, 176, 177, 192

      Conant, James B., 44–46, 48, 52, 129, 137, 281n13

      concentration camps, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 131, 152–63. See also names of individual camps

      Congress, 54, 57, 61, 62, 66, 126, 129, 135, 147

      conservatives, 11–12

      Consolidated Press Association, 84

      Constitution, 70–71, 142–43, 230

      Coolidge, President Calvin, 58

      Cooper, Courtney Riley, 124

      Cornell Medical College, 135

      Cox, Sheriff Dan, 121

      Cravath, Henderson & deGersdorff, 126, 127

      Cravath, Swaine & Moore, 126

      crematoria, 10

      crime, 141

      Crossfire, 164

      Croyland, Pennsylvania, 47

      cruel and unusual punishment, 12, 13, 70–71, 106, 199–202, 223–25

      Crystal Palace, 26

      Cudahy City, California, 66

      Cumming, Dr. Hugh S., 55, 91, 92

      Curran, Frank, 63, 75, 267n55

      Currivan, Gene, 161

      cyanamid (calcium cyanamide), 61, 98

      “Cyanegg,” 97

      cyanide, 6, 10, 13, 24, 32, 40–42, 55, 56, 57, 58–62, 64–66, 74, 89, 91, 97–98, 109, 112, 121, 199, 209, 217–24, 221, 222

      cyanide cartel, 10, 60–66, 89, 97

      cyanogen, 10, 41, 59, 62, 93, 95, 97, 98

      Czechoslovakia, 158

      Dachau concentration camp, 152, 162–64, 177, 182

      Dalles-Celilo Canal, 44

      Darrow, Clarence, 32

      Darwin, Charles, 4

      Davenport, Charles, 32, 132

      da Vinci, Leonardo, 36

      Davison, Trubee, 126

      Davy, John, 39

      Dawidowicz, Lucy S., 89

      death camps. See concentration camps names of individual camps

      “death chamber,” 30

      death penalty, 11, 12, 13, 29, 62–63, 85, 141, 145–46, 171–230

      Death Penalty in America, The, 228

      Declaration of Independence, 29

      “degeneration,” 5, 26, 27, 28, 30, 33, 122, 145

      DEGESCH (Deutsch Gesselschsaft für Schädlingsbekämpfung), 92, 95, 98, 131, 152, 154, 162, 165, 167

      DEGUSSA (Deutsche Gold & Silber Scheideanstalt), 6, 60, 91, 98, 130, 131, 165

      Delaware, 66, 194

      democracy, 6, 32, 133

      Democrats, 1, 54, 63, 64, 97, 101, 122, 123, 129, 188, 203

      Denmark, 175

      Denno, Deborah W., 12

      Denver, Colorado, 6, 101, 103, 116, 119, 179, 198, 199

      Denver Post, 101, 120

      Department of Jewish Affairs, 190

      Des Moines, Iowa, 184

      Dessau, Germany, 92

      Dessauer, Germany, 165

      Dessauer Schlempe, 165

      Dessauer Werke für Zucker und Chemische Werke, 165

     
    Deutsche Gold & Silber Scheideanstalt. See DEGUSSA

      Dewey, Gov. Thomas, 158

      diagriess, 152

      Dickerson, Denver S., 71–72, 77–82, 84–85

      Did Six Million Really Die? 221

      Dillinger, John, 141

      Dinsmore, Sanford C., 76–77

      Discipline and Punishment, 16

      discoids, 98, 152, 166

      disinfection, 131–32, 155

      Dmytryk, Edward, 164

      Double Indemnity, 163

      Douglas, Lewis Williams, 126, 129–30, 137, 170

      Douglas, Louis Sprague, 107

      Douglas, Justice William O., 200

      Dow Chemical, 68, 137

      Downs, James Cloyd, 98

      drierite (anhydrous calcium sulfate), 152

      Drosihn, Dr. Joachim, 167

      Duffy, Warden Clinton T., 147, 184–85

      Dugan, Eva, 100, 102

      Dugdale, Richard Louis, 26–28, 88

      Duke University School of Medicine, 111

      dumping, 51–52

      Dunbar, Tad, 208

      Duplin County, North Carolina, 111

      DuPont (E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co.), 6, 10, 60–61, 68, 97, 98, 128, 137–38, 167, 168–69, 212–13

      DuPont Dye Trust, 60–61

      DuPont, Ethel, 169

      DuPont, Eugene, 169

      DuPont, Irénée, 97

      DuPont, Lammot, Jr., 97

      DuPonts, 130

      Dutch, 27

      Eaton Metal Products Co., 6, 10, 103, 109–10, 116, 117, 119–20, 122, 179, 193

      Eatwell, Roger, 87

      Eberl, Dr. Irmfried, 150

      Edgewood Arsenal, 46, 47, 50, 126

      Edison, Thomas, 13

      Edwards, Leo, Jr., 214

      Ehrmann, Herbert R., 184

      Ehrmann, Sara R., 184, 290n25

      Eichmann, Karl Adolf, 190–92

      Eichmann in Jerusalem, 191–92

      Eighth Amendment, 12, 13, 70–71, 106, 199–204, 209, 215, 223–25, 227

      88 Men and 2 Women, 184

      Eisenhower, Dwight D., 161, 188

      Elbe River, 166, 167

      electric chair, 1, 12, 14, 29, 30, 33, 64, 74, 100, 108, 207

      electrocution, 12, 14, 29, 30, 33, 64, 74, 100, 108, 114, 121, 124, 141, 175, 177, 178, 180, 207

      Elko, Nevada, 63, 98

      Ellis Island, 127

      Elmira, N.Y., 30

      El Paso, Texas, 92, 131

      El Paso Herald, 92

      Embassy Newsreel Theatre, 162

      England, 175

      Engler, Deputy Attorney General Gerald, 219

      Enlightenment, 16

      environmental effects, 57

      epileptics, 31

      Erko, 152

      Eshelman, Chaplain Byron, 196, 200

      Espy, M. Watt, 3

      Estabrook, Arthur H., 28

      E-Stoff, 41

      Ethiopia, 136

      eugenics, 5, 26, 28, 31, 32, 89, 114, 122, 130, 132, 133, 135–37, 145

      Eugenics Record Office, 28

      Eugenics Research Institute, 135

      Eugenics Society of Northern California, 122

      euthanasia, 2, 11, 14, 15, 26, 28, 100, 134–35, 149–52, 156–57, 204

      Evans, Connie Ray, 214

      ewige Jude, Der, 132

      executioner, 111, 210–11

      execution methods, 1, 2, 8, 14, 17, 28–200, 203, 221, 224

      execution moratorium, 11–12, 199–207

      execution restoration, 11–12, 205–7

      Exner, Franz, 86

      Exodus, 192

      extermination, 7, 8, 9, 30, 31, 89, 100, 155, 157, 167

      Exum, Milford, 114

      Fallon Standard, 75

      Farben, IG (Interessen Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft), 7, 10, 66, 97, 98, 128, 131, 137–38, 149, 161–62, 165–71

      Farmer, Millard, 213

      fascism, 6, 86–87, 128, 133, 136, 139, 170, 177

      Fassett, J. Sloat, 30

      Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 133–34, 140

      federal prisoner, 146–47

      Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 66, 128

      “feebleminded,” 28, 114, 136, 145–46

      Fierro, David, 217, 219–25

      Fierro v. Gomez, 219–25

      Final Solution, 8, 89, 156, 159, 190

      Fischer, E., 88

      Fischer, Foreign Minister Joschka, 229

      Fisher, Chester G., 43

      Fisher Scientific Materials Company, 43

      Flanders, 34

      Flick, Friedrich, 170

      Fliedner, Margaret, 103–4

      Florence, Arizona, 107, 227

      Florida, 207, 214

      Floyd, “Pretty Boy,” 123, 141

      Flury, Ferdinand, 38, 95–96

      Folsom Prison, 118, 121

      Ford, Edsell B., 128

      Ford, Gerald, 203

      Ford, Henry, 68, 87, 88, 127

      Fordney-McCumber Tariff Law, 65

      Forensic Institute of Krakow, 222

      forestite, 41

      Fort Leavenworth, 148

      Fortune magazine, 97

      Foster, Allen, 110–13

      Foucault, Michel, 16, 17, 18, 19

      Fourteen Days in May, 213–14

      Frame, James M., 70, 71, 75

      France, 4, 38, 43, 48, 51, 63, 126, 133, 137, 190

      Frankfurt am Main, 6, 7, 60, 92, 95, 162

      Frankfurt Court of Assizes, 168

      Frankfurter, Justice Felix, 200–201

      Free speech movement, 190

      Frelinghuysen, Sen. Theodore, 65

      French Algerians, 34

      Freudenthal, Berthold, 86

      Friedberg, John M., 220–21

      Fries, Amos A., 43–45, 48, 50, 53–58, 64, 66, 67, 71, 75, 83, 122, 134–35, 158, 177; biography, 261n41

      Fumigation, 7, 55, 57, 62, 76, 91, 92, 93, 94, 97, 98, 100, 153, 166, 167

      Furman, William, 201

      Furman v. Georgia, 201–2

      Fury, 119

      Gallego, Gerald, 179–80

      Gallup poll, 177, 188, 194, 211, 223

      Galton, Sir Francis, 4

      Gangelin, Victor A., 183

      Gardner, Erle Stanley, 187

      Garland, David, 16

      Garnersville, California, 79

      garrote, 29

      Garth, Bryan G., 17

      Garvan, Francis P., 61

      gas chamber, 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 16, 18, 25, 30, 41, 49, 63–64, 72–75, 90–91, 100, 103–4, 109–10, 116, 117, 119–20, 133, 141–48, 150–56, 167, 177–99, 208–30

      gas masks, 38, 40, 42, 49, 55, 117, 147–48, 155

      gas plants, 47, 53, 60, 61

      Geiger, Dr. J. C., 121

      gender, 146

      General Electric, 170

      General Motors, 97, 127, 170

      Geneva Convention (Geneva Protocol), 67–68

      genocide, 7, 9, 11, 15, 18, 89, 164

      Gentleman’s Agreement, 164

      George, Warren, 217

      Georgia, 204, 214, 215

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

      German Board of Jurisdiction, 134

      Germany, 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 30, 31, 36, 42, 43, 48, 50, 52, 54, 59, 60, 62, 64, 66, 67, 86–89, 91, 92, 97, 122, 126, 127, 128, 130, 134, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 170, 176, 190, 193, 206, 227, 229–30

      Gestapo, 128, 129, 130, 190

      Gilman, Alfred, 58

      Gilmore, Gary, 205

      Gireth, Leslie, 147

      Goebbels, Joseph, 132, 156

      Goethe, Charles M., 122

      Goffman, Erving, 17

      Goldberg, Justice Arthur, 200

      Goldwater, Sen. Barry, 188

      Goodman, Louis S., 58

      Goodman, Paul, 190

      Göring, Hermann, 129, 136

      Grafeneck, 151

      Graham, Barbara, 182–83

      Grant, Madison, 31–32, 88

      Gray, Dr. M. H., 82

      Gray, Jimmy Lee, 208–12

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    nbsp; Great Britain, 6, 11, 36, 38, 51, 130, 137, 157, 175

      Great Depression, 6, 108, 130, 139–48, 185

      Green, Paul, 144–45

      Greenlease Kidnap Killers, 180

      Gregg v. Georgia, 204, 207

      guards, 78, 181–82, 216–17

      guillotine, 29, 134

      Gusen concentration camp, 152

      Gypsies, 2, 132, 133, 152, 191, 193, 219

      Haber, Fritz, 37–38, 52, 61, 92, 95

      Haber, Ludwig, 38

      Haber-Bosch Process, 61

      Habermas, Jürgen, 18, 19

      Hague, 36

      Haiti, 9, 29

      Hall, Carl Austin, 180–81

      Hamann, Paul, 213

      Hamburg, Germany, 154, 167

      Hamburg-Amerika Line, 66

      Hamer, Dr. Edward E., 82, 99–100

      Hamill, Deputy Sheriff W. J. “Jack,” 69

      Hamilton, Alexander, 30

      Hamilton, Dr. Allan McLane, 29–30, 32–33, 63

      Hamilton, Ed, 115

      Haney, Craig W., 218–19

      Hanfstaengl, Ernst (“Putzi”), 87, 88, 127

      hanging, 1, 28–29, 100–102, 121, 124, 175, 177, 184, 194

      Harding, Donald, 215–16

      Harding, President Warren, 55, 65

      Hardy, Dr. Joseph B., 79, 82

      Harlem, New York City, 118

      Harris, Daniel, 217

      Harris, Robert Alton, 217–18

      Harrison, Rep. Earl G., 164

      Hart, J. J., 63

      Hart, Sen. Philip A., 195

      Hartheim concentration camp, 152

      Harvard Law School, 126, 135

      Harvard University, 45, 87, 127, 129, 131, 137

      Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., 47, 126

      Haynes, Dr. John Randolph, 122

      Hayward, Susan, 182–83

      Headley, Bonnie Brown, 180–81

      health effects, 51, 57, 59

      Heerdt, Walter, 91–92, 166, 271n35

      Heerdt-Lingler (Heli), 154, 166

      Heinrichs, Warden R. B., 72

      Henderson, Yandell, 43

      heredity, 26–27, 87–88, 135

      Hernandez, Fred, 107

      Hernandez, Manuel, 107

      Herodotus, 140

      Hess, Rudolf, 88, 129, 136

      Heyde, Dr. Werner, 149

      Heydrich, Reinhard, 155

      Hickok, Lorena A., 105–6

      Hildebrand, Joel H., 44

      Hill, Gov. David B., 28–29

      Hipler, Fritz, 132

      Hitler, Adolf, 1, 7, 9, 52, 86–89, 97, 119, 122, 123, 127, 128, 131–36, 149, 150, 156, 159–60, 177, 193

      Hitler We Loved, The, 222

      Hoboken, N. J., 60

      Hoey, Gov. Clyde Roarke, 114

      Hoffmann, Friedrich W. “Fritz,” 169

      Hollywood, California, 122, 163, 164, 185

      Holmes, Associate Justice Oliver W., 145

      Holocaust, 1, 2, 11, 14, 18, 19, 152–71, 176, 193, 213, 219, 221–22

      Holocaust-denial, 212–13, 221–22

      Holocaust History Project, 152–53

      Holocaust in American Life, The, 156, 192–93

     


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