The Holocaust at Home
Marcel Petiot: false resistance fighter and true killer. The doctor promised escape to Jewish families but murdered them and then incinerated them at his home. In The Murderer of the Human Race, psychoanalyst Tobie Nathan…
Assessment
A psychanalyst's book examines Marcel Petiot, a French doctor who posed as a rescuer for Jewish families during the Holocaust but murdered them in his home. The framing suggests the book treats Petiot as a symptom of societies in collapse, inviting readers to consider how extreme social fractures can produce killers who exploit the desperate. The analysis probes the criminal mind rather than offering a straightforward historical account.