Death and deliverance : "euthanasia" in Germany c. 1900-1945
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Death and deliverance : "euthanasia" in Germany c. 1900-1945
Cambridge University Press, 1994
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Includes bibliographies (p. 343-372) and index
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Description
Between 1939 and 1945 the Nazis systematically murdered as many as 200,000 mentally ill or physically disabled people whom they stigmatised as 'life unworthy of life'. This complex and covert series of operations was known as the 'euthanasia' programme. It provided many of the personnel and the technical expertise later deployed in the 'Final Solution'. This is the first full-scale study in English of the 'euthanasia' programme. It considers the role of all those involved in these policies: bureaucrats, doctors, nurses, health officials, lawyers, clerics, and also parents, relatives, and the patients themselves. Using a wealth of original archival material, it highlights many of the moral issues involved in a way that is profoundly disquieting. The book concludes by showing the ease with which many of the perpetrators filtered back into German society after 1945.
Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Introduction and acknowledgements
- Part I. Saving Money, Spending Lives: 1. Winter landscapes: psychiatric reform and retrenchment during the Weimar Republic
- 2. Hope and hard times: asylums in the 1930s
- Part II. Gods in White Coats: 3. 'Wheels must roll for victory'!: children's euthanasia and 'aktion T-4'
- 4. 'The psychopaths' club'
- 5. 'Gentlemen's agreements'
- Responses to the 'euthanasia' programe
- Part III. Euthanasia and Racial Warfare: 6. Selling murder: the killing films of the Third Reich
- 7. Evil empires: from 'Aktion 14f13' to Trieste
- 8. Medieval or modern? 'Euthanasia' programmes 1941-1945
- Part IV. Aftermaths: 9. How Professor Heyde became Dr Sawade
- 10. Singer Australian academic jets in bearing old message to be denied the right to speak by German 'alternative' fascists?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
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