Editing Viktor Frankl (section)

=== Jewish relations and experiments on the resistance ===
In the post war years, Frankl's attitude towards not pursuing justice nor assigning [[collective guilt]] to the Austrian people for collaborating with or acquiescing in the face of Nazism, led to "frayed" relationships between Frankl, many Viennese and the larger American Jewish community, such that in 1978 when attempting to give a lecture at the institute of [[Rohr Jewish Learning Institute|Adult Jewish Studies]] in New York, Frankl was confronted with an outburst of boos from the audience and was called a "nazi pig". Frankl supported forgiveness and held that many in Germany and Austria were powerless to do anything about the atrocities which occurred and could not be collectively blamed.{{r|n=Bischof|p=255}}<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.profil.at/home/psychotherapie-wille-sinn-viktor-frankl-26-maerz-100-106644 | title=Psychotherapie: Wille zum Sinn – Viktor Frankl wäre am 26. März 100 geworden | date=5 March 2005 }}</ref><ref name=freud/>

In 1988 Frankl would further "stir up sentiment against him" by being photographed next to and in accepting the [[Great Silver Medal with Star for Services to the Republic of Austria]] as a Holocaust survivor, from [[Kurt Waldheim|President Waldheim]], a controversial president of Austria who concurrent with the medal ceremony, was gripped by revelations that he had lied about his WWII military record and was under investigation for complicity in Nazi War crimes. It was later concluded that he was not involved in war crimes but had knowledge of them. Frankl's acceptance of the medal was viewed by many in the international Jewish community as a betrayal.<ref name=freud>[Freud's World: An Encyclopedia of His Life and Times, By Luis A. Cordón. pg 147]</ref> 

In his "Gutachten" [[Gestapo]] profile, Frankl is described as "politically perfect" by the Nazi secret police, with Frankl's membership in the [[Fatherland Front (Austria)|Austro-fascist "Fatherland Front"]] in 1934, similarly stated in isolation. It has been suggested that as a state employee in a hospital he was likely automatically signed up to the party regardless of whether he wanted to or not. Frankl was interviewed twice by the secret police during the war, yet nothing of the expected contents, the subject of discussion or any further information on these interviews, is contained in Frankl's file, suggesting to biographers that Frankl's file was "cleansed" sometime after the war.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/authoritarian-therapy/201807/austrian-jews-respond-nazism-part-2 | title=Austrian Jews Respond to Nazism, Part 2 &#124; Psychology Today }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Pytell |first1=Timothy |title=Viktor Frankl's Search for Meaning: An Emblematic 20th-Century Life |date=2015 |publisher=Berghahn Books |page=62}}</ref>

None of Frankl's obituaries mention the unqualified and unskilled brain [[lobotomy]] and [[trepanation]] medical [[Nazi medical experiments|experiments approved by the Nazis]] that Frankl performed on Jews who had committed suicide with an overdose of sedatives, in resistance to their impending arrest, imprisonment and enforced labour in the concentration camp system. The goal of these experiments were to try and revive those who had killed themselves, Frankl justified this by saying that he was trying to find ways to save the lives of Jews. Operating without any training as a surgeon, Frankl would voluntarily request of the Nazis to perform the experiments on those who had killed themselves, and once approved – published some of the details on his experiments, the methods of insertion of his chosen amphetamine drugs into the brains of these individuals, resulting in, at times, an alleged partial resuscitation, mainly in 1942 (prior to his own internment at [[Theresienstadt|Theresienstadt ghetto]] in September, later in that year). Historian [[Günter Bischof]] of Harvard University, suggests Frankl's approaching and requesting to perform lobotomy experiments could be seen as a way to "[[ingratiate]]" himself amongst the Nazis, as the latter were not, at that time, appreciative of the international scrutiny that these suicides were beginning to create, nor "suicide" being listed on arrest records.{{r|n=Pytell2003}}{{r|n=Bischof|pp=241&ndash;255}}{{r|n=Szasz|pp=60&ndash;62}}<ref name=tp/>