Victor Capesius was a Romanian German pharmacist who found himself pulled into the Nazi murder machine at the height of WWII.

A new complex of camps which would supply labor and medical testing subjects for the German pharma companies came to be known as Auschwitz. This is where Capesius and Josef Mengele would baptize their professions in Third Reich atrocity.

In this conversation, Trisha and I drift between the content of the book, chasing compelling leads and the profound continued necessity for focused reading of nuanced longer-form argument.