Japan, 6, 66, 125, 128, 164, 170
Japanese-American internment, 125, 138
Jefferson City, Missouri, 222
Jenkins, Ed, 112
Jersey City, N.J., 127
Jerusalem, 191
Jews, 2, 8, 13, 27, 32, 37, 54, 86–89, 93, 117, 118, 125, 129, 131, 132, 133, 134, 136, 151–71, 176–77, 188, 190–93, 219, 221–22
Jim Crow, 89, 144
Johnny, Mamie, 72
Johns Hopkins Medical School, 209
Johnson, Edward Earl, 213–14
Johnson, Gov. Edwin C. (“Big Ed”), 102, 103, 105
Johnson, Guy B., 144–45
Johnson-Reed Immigration Act, 5–6
Johnson, Rep. Alfred, 66
Joint Intelligence Committee, 157
Jon, Gee, 1, 6, 70, 75, 77, 78–83, 87, 90, 92, 98
Journal Courier (New Haven, Connecticut), 84
Journal of Historical Review, 212
Journal of the American Medical Association, 100
Juárez, Mexico, 92
Judgment at Nuremberg, 192
Jukes, 26–28, 88
Jukes: A Study in Crime, Pauperism, Disease and Heredity, The, 26, 88
Jukich, Stanko, 85, 90
Kady, Martin III, 225–26
Kafka, Franz, 16, 34
Kahn, Rep. Julius, 54
Kaiser Wilhelm II, 51
Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut für Physikalische Chemie, 37
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute’s Department E, 38
Kansas, 194
Kansas City, Missouri, 123
Karski, Jan, 159
Kee, Tom Quong, 69
Kelley, William Cody, 104–7
Kennedy, Foster, 135, 136
Kenney, Mae E., 99
Kentucky, 12
Kessell, Albert, 121
Keyes, Frederick G., 44
kieselguhr, 92
killing centers, 152, 157. See also names of individual camps
King, Rev. Martin Luther, Jr., 111, 200
Kingsport, Tennessee, 47
Kirchheimer, Otto, 13, 18
Klement, Ricardo, 190
Knight, Gov. Goodwin J., 182
Korean War, 170, 195
Krieger, Hans, 134
Krupp, Alfred, 170
Ku Klux Klan, 87, 101, 178
Kuykendall, Cecil, 107
LaGrand, Karl, 227
LaGrand, Walter, 227–30
Lake Erie, 51
Lamson, David, 186
Land, E. M., 145
Landon, Alfred M., 130
Landsberg Am Lech Fortress Prison, 87
Lang, Dr. Harry C., 82
Langhorst, Harry J., 98
Lantzer, Stanley, 117
Las Vegas, Nevada, 207
Laughlin, Dr. Harry H., 135
Laurence, Michael, 217
Lawes, Warden Lewis, 184
Lawrence, D. H., 26
Lawrence, Lord Justice Sir Geoffrey, 167
Lawrence, W. H., 159–61
Lawson, David, 222–23
League of Nations, 67, 68
League of Women Voters, 67, 71
Leake County, Mississippi, 213
Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary, 71
Lee, Ivy Ledbetter, 128
Lehrecke, Hans, 95
Lend-Lease, 137
Lenz, F., 87–88
lethal chamber, 1, 4, 5, 23–33, 52, 64
“lethal chambered,” 26
lethal gas executions, 1, 2, 7, 10, 12, 13, 14, 30, 63–64, 112, 130, 141–63, 171, 175, 177–230
lethal injection, 12, 13, 18, 29, 175, 203–4, 211–12
Leuchter, Fred A., Jr., 221–22
Lewis, Gilbert N., 44
Lewis, Winford Lee, 45
lewisite (methyl, G-34), 45–46, 48, 50, 57, 147–48
lice, 131
Liepmann, Moritz, 86
Lincoln, Abraham, 87
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 133, 134, 139
Lindbergh, Charles A., 119, 133, 134, 139
Lindsey, William B., 212–13
Linz, Austria, 152
Lions Club, 67, 83
Liston, Earl C., 103, 119–20, 193, 231–36
“Little Lindbergh Law,” 186
Livens Projector, 40, 51
Lódź, 132
Lohwasser, Daniel, 211
London, 25, 157, 188
London Fumigation Company, 98
London’s Society of Arts, 25
Long, William, 112
Longstreth, Joseph E., 187
Loree, Col. Leonor Fresnel, 66
Los Angeles, 62, 66, 76, 78, 85, 122, 185–86, 217
Los Angeles Harbor, 44
Los Angeles Times, 84
Louis, Joe, 111
Louisiana, 214
Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, 214
Love, Gov. John Arthur, 198
Lovelock, Navada, 63
Lovenhart, Dr. Arthur S., 57–58
Lublin, Poland, 157, 159–60
lynching, 28, 100, 102, 108, 111, 117, 118–19, 140, 141, 144, 176, 178–79, 195
Lyon, Gloria H., 219
MacLaine, Shirley, 188
MacMurray, Fred, 163
Madison Square Garden, 102
Mailer, Norman, 188
Maine, 184
Majdanek death camp, 152, 157, 159–60, 161
Man, the Unknown, 132–33
Manhattan, 48, 127
Manhattan Project, 45, 169
manifest destiny, 28
Mann, Thomas, 156
Margaret, “Mother of Criminals,” 27
Maricopa County, Arizona, 107
Markiewicz, Jan, 222
Marsh, Gen. Peyton C., 53
Marshall, Justice Thurgood, 208
Martin, Gov. Charles H. (“Iron Pants”), 122–23
Marxism, 18, 88
Maryland, 3, 47, 180, 206, 207, 215, 224
Mask for Privilege, A, 164
Mason, David, 219–20
Mason, Perry, 187
Massachusetts, 221
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 43, 44, 47
Mathewson, Christy, 49, 51
mauguinite, 41
Maurice, Emil, 88
Mauthausen concentration camp, 152
Max, 27
Maxwell, Lucia R., 67
Maxwell v. Bishop, 201
Mazal, Harry W., 152–53
McCarthy, LeRoy Hershel, 123
McCarthy, Sen. Joseph, 177
McClesky v. Kemp, 215
McCloy, John J., 125–38, 159, 164, 169–71
McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, 217
McDaniels, Otis, 108
McGill University, 137
McKenna, Associate Justice Joseph, 71
McKim, Dr. W. Duncan, 31, 133
McPherson, Warden Alex, 117
McWilliams, Carey, 164
Medical Society of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 30
medical uses of poison gas, 56, 57–58
Meekins, Isaac, 60
Mein Kampf, 7, 88–89, 127
Mein Leben und Werk, 88
Menschliche Erblichkeitslehre und Rassenhygiene, 87
mentally defective, 6, 31, 114
mentally retarded, 2, 6, 28, 114–15, 145–46
Mermelstein, Mel, 213
Merriam, Gov. Frank F., 119
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 119
Mexicans, 91, 131
Michigan, 184, 185, 195
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCoy, 170
Midland, Michigan, 47
Miller, Arthur, 177
Miller, Col. Thomas W., 60–61
Mina, Nevada, 69
Mineral County, Nevada, 69
mining, 61, 62, 63, 64
Minnesota, 184
Miranda v. Arizona, 201
Mircovich, Andrizia, 62
Mississippi, 3, 108, 143, 178–80, 206, 208–11, 213–14, 216
Mississippi Coalition Against the Death Penalty, 210
Mississippi River, 76
Missouri, 3, 44, 117, 123–24, 178, 180–81, 206, 212, 221
Missouri State Penitentiary, 222
Mitchell, Aaron, 195–98, 203
Mitchell, Charles E., 128
Mitchell County, North Carolina, 108
Mixed Claims Commission, 127
mobile gas chamber, 108
modernity, 14, 15, 16, 17, 28, 33
modern state, 28
Monge, Luis J., 198–99, 208
Mooney, Tom, 187
Moore, Martin, 113