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Confronting the "Good Death" : Nazi Euthanasia on Trial, 1945-1953 / Michael S. Bryant.

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Bryant, Michael, 1962-

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Project Muse [distributor]

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TextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2005]Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019Copyright date: ©[2005]Description: 1 online resource (288 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781607327080

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Contents:

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.

Summary: The scholarship devoted to the complicity of German physicians in the Holocaust is rich and detailed, but there remains, as Michael Bryant demonstrates, still more to learn. It is well established that the techniques employed by the Nazis to exterminate Jews and others in concentration camps were first applied to people in state hospitals who were deemed mentally disabled or terminally ill. What has been less thoroughly investigated is the postwar response of both the Allies and the Germans to these atrocities. Bryant fills the gap with a systematic account of the judicial proceedings against those charged with killing the disabled.

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The scholarship devoted to the complicity of German physicians in the Holocaust is rich and detailed, but there remains, as Michael Bryant demonstrates, still more to learn. It is well established that the techniques employed by the Nazis to exterminate Jews and others in concentration camps were first applied to people in state hospitals who were deemed mentally disabled or terminally ill. What has been less thoroughly investigated is the postwar response of both the Allies and the Germans to these atrocities. Bryant fills the gap with a systematic account of the judicial proceedings against those charged with killing the disabled.

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