Vivien Spitz worked as Chief Reporter of Debates in the United States House of Representatives from 1972 to 1982 and reported the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials in Germany from 1946 to 1948, including the Nazi Doctors Cases. She published a book Doctors from Hell covering this experience.
Spitz began speaking publicly about what she had witnessed at Nuremberg and was such a powerful speaker that Holocaust deniers began confronting her at speaking engagements. After a run-in with them in 1999, she decided to write Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans.