La Shoah à domicile
Marcel Petiot: faux résistant et vrai tueur. Le docteur promettait la fuite à des familles juives mais les assassinait puis les incinérait chez lui. Dans L’Assassin du genre humain, le psychanalyste Tobie Nathan explore les…
Évaluation
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.