Confronting the "good death" : Nazi euthanasia on trial, 1945-1953

Author(s)

• Bryant, Michael S.

Bibliographic Information

Confronting the "good death" : Nazi euthanasia on trial, 1945-1953

Michael S. Bryant

University Press of Colorado, c2005

• : : alk. paper

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This readable study analyses the post-war attempt to prosecute perpetrators of a Nazi campaign against the mentally ill that facilitated 270,000 murders and set a precedent for Nazi mass murder.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• The Emperor of Ice-Cream: Nationalist Socialist Euthanasia, 1933-1945
• Constructing Mass Murder: The United States Euthanasia Trials, 1945-1947
• First Reckonings: The German Euthanasia Trials, 1946-1947
• Lucifer on the Ruins of the World: The German Euthanasia Trials, 1948-1950
• Law and Power: The West German Euthanasia Trials, 1948-1953
• Conclusion.

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Details

• NCID: BA84443937
• ISBN:
  • 0870818090
• LCCN: 2005017419
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Boulder, Colo.
• Pages/Volumes: x, 269 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : D804.5.H35
  • DC22 : 940.53/18/0874
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : People with disabilities -- Nazi persecution
  • LCSH : Euthanasia -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Trials (Genocide)