Tablet Magazine This essay is written from the point of view of a physician, medical educator, and bioethicist who sees the deplorable fact of physician involvement in the Shoah as an opportunity to highlight enduring moral lessons for the medical professions.

When President Ronald Reagan identified the Soviet Union as the "Evil Empire" and asked President Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall," he gave the moral courage to millions of oppressed people to revolt against communism. Now, only 30 years after the fall of the Berlin wall, communism is once again on the rise in America.