Death and Deliverance: 'Euthanasia' in Germany, c.1900 to 1945
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (745 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0521416132 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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The book concludes by showing the ease with which many of the perpetrators filtered back into German society after 1945.. This is the first full-scale study in English of the 'euthanasia' programme. 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'. It provided many of the personnel and the technical expertise later deployed in the 'Final Solution'. 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. This complex and covert series of operations was known as the 'euthanasia' programme. Using a wealth of original archival material, it highlights many of the moral issues involved in a way that is profoundly disquieting
Remembering the forgotten victims An extraordinary and deeply moving book. Burleigh documents in meticulous and scholarly detail the mass murder of psychiatric patients, and exposes the obscene justification of this as "mercy killing" (incidentally providing a fascinating and horrifying survey of the way in which the Nazi "euthanasia" program helped create the bureaucratic machinery later used to run the co. the viewer in better housing, or more food access Kate Difficult to read, but important as so many books covering this period tend to focus on the 'Final Solution' and ignore the 70,000+ who were killed because of their mental disorders, birth defects, congenital malformations and diseases and injuries that resulted in loss of productivity. This text is important because it lays out the historical factors that lead first to the. Three Stars Catherine Klimenkov A long and painful book very academic book.
Kenan Visiting Professor at Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. He is currently William R. Michael Burleigh is Distinguished Research Professor in Modern History at Cardiff University. . He is the author of six well-received books
All rights reserved.. Burleigh describes how victims were targeted, including Jews, foreigners, enemies of the Reich, gypsies, and those who lacked ``labor values.'' Occasional accounts of humanity brighten the grim story, as medical Schindlers saved patients from death by listing them as valuable workers who were badly needed. After the war, some of the Nazi eugenicists, tried at Nuremberg and in German courts, were executed, while others received light sentences. Soon, however, ``mercy killing'' evolved into the elimination of ``life unworthy of life'' as the Nazi killing machine expanded