The German Euthanasia Program

Nurses and Midwives in Nazi Germany

• Author : Susan Benedict
• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 5,5 Mb
• Release Date : 2014-04-24
• Genre: History
• Pages : 264
• ISBN 10 : 9781317859390

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This book is about the ethics of nursing and midwifery, and how these were abrogated during the Nazi era. Nurses and midwives actively killed their patients, many of whom were disabled children and infants and patients with mental (and other) illnesses or intellectual disabilities. The book gives the facts as well as theoretical perspectives as a lens through which these crimes can be viewed. It also provides a way to teach this history to nursing and midwifery students, and, for the first time, explains the role of one of the world’s most historically prominent midwifery leaders in the Nazi crimes.

Death and Deliverance

• Author : Michael Burleigh
• Publisher : CUP Archive
• File Size : 6,5 Mb
• Release Date : 1994-10-27
• Genre: History
• Pages : 404
• ISBN 10 : 0521477697

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The first full-scale study in English of the Nazis' so-called 'euthanasia' programme in which over 200,000 people perished.

The German Euthanasia Program

• Author : Fredric Wertham
• Publisher : Unknown
• File Size : 18,9 Mb
• Release Date : 1994
• Genre: Euthanasia
• Pages : 63
• ISBN 10 : OCLC:861107336

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The Origins of Nazi Genocide

• Author : Henry Friedlander
• Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
• File Size : 10,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2000-11-09
• Genre: History
• Pages : 448
• ISBN 10 : 9780807861608

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Tracing the rise of racist and eugenic ideologies, Henry Friedlander explores in chilling detail how the Nazi program of secretly exterminating the handicapped and disabled evolved into the systematic destruction of Jews and Gypsies. He describes how the so-called euthanasia of the handicapped provided a practical model for the later mass murder, thereby initiating the Holocaust. The Nazi regime pursued the extermination of Jews, Gypsies, and the handicapped based on a belief in the biological, and thus absolute, inferiority of those groups. To document the connection between the assault on the handicapped and the Final Solution, Friedlander shows how the legal restrictions and exclusionary policies of the 1930s, including mass sterilization, led to mass murder during the war. He also makes clear that the killing centers where the handicapped were gassed and cremated served as the models for the extermination camps. Based on extensive archival research, the book also analyzes the involvement of the German bureaucracy and judiciary, the participation of physicians and scientists, and the nature of popular opposition.

A Companion to the Holocaust

• Author : Simone Gigliotti
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• File Size : 19,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2020-06-02
• Genre: History
• Pages : 704
• ISBN 10 : 9781118970522

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Provides a cutting-edge, nuanced, and multi-disciplinary picture of the Holocaust from local, transnational, continental, and global perspectives Holocaust Studies is a dynamic field that encompasses discussions on human behavior, extremity, and moral action. A diverse range of disciplines – history, philosophy, literature, social psychology, anthropology, geography, amongst others – continue to make important contributions to its scholarship. A Companion to the Holocaust provides exciting commentaries on current and emerging debates and identifies new connections for research. The text incorporates new language, geographies, and approaches to address the precursors of the Holocaust and examine its global consequences. A team of international contributors provides insightful and sophisticated analyses of current trends in Holocaust research that go far beyond common conceptions of the Holocaust’s causes, unfolding and impact. Scholars draw on their original research to interpret current, agenda-setting historical and historiographical debates on the Holocaust. Six broad sections cover wide-ranging topics such as new debates about Nazi perpetrators, arguments about the causes and places of persecution of Jews in Germany and Europe, and Jewish and non-Jewish responses to it, the use of forced labor in the German war economy, representations of the Holocaust witness, and many others. A masterful framing chapter sets the direction and tone of each section’s themes. Comprising over thirty essays, this important addition to Holocaust studies: Offers a remarkable compendium of systematic, comparative, and precise analyses Covers areas and topics not included in any other companion of its type Examines the ongoing cultural, social, and political legacies of the Holocaust Includes discussions on non-European and non-Western geographies, inter-ethnic tensions, and violence A Companion to the Holocaust is an essential resource for students and scholars of European, Ger

Confronting the Good Death

• Author : Michael S. Bryant
• Publisher : University Press of Colorado
• File Size : 7,7 Mb
• Release Date : 2022-09-15
• Genre: History
• Pages : 297
• ISBN 10 : 9781646423422

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Years before Hitler unleashed the “Final Solution” to annihilate European Jews, he began a lesser-known campaign to eradicate the mentally ill, which facilitated the gassing and lethal injection of as many as 270,000 people and set a precedent for the mass murder of civilians. In Confronting the “Good Death” Michael Bryant analyzes the U.S. government and West German judiciary’s attempt to punish the euthanasia killers after the war. The first author to address the impact of geopolitics on the courts’ representation of Nazi euthanasia, Bryant argues that international power relationships wreaked havoc on the prosecutions. Drawing on primary sources, this provocative investigation of the Nazi campaign against the mentally ill and the postwar quest for justice will interest general readers and provide critical information for scholars of Holocaust studies, legal history, and human rights. Support for this publication was generously provided by the Eugene M. Kayden Fund at the University of Colorado.

Deadly Medicine

• Author : Susan D. Bachrach
• Publisher : Unknown
• File Size : 16,5 Mb
• Release Date : 2004
• Genre: Eugenics
• Pages : 244
• ISBN 10 : UVA:X004803737

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A catalog to accompany an exhibit at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on the subject of the Nazi eugenics program.

The Nazi Doctors

• Author : Robert Jay Lifton
• Publisher : Unknown
• File Size : 6,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2000
• Genre: Uncategoriezed
• Pages : 561
• ISBN 10 : OCLC:878495632

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Forgotten Crimes

• Author : Suzanne E. Evans
• Publisher : Ivan R Dee
• File Size : 12,6 Mb
• Release Date : 2004
• Genre: People with disabilities
• Pages : 216
• ISBN 10 : UOM:39015061773431

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This book explores the development and workings of the euthanasia programs, a relatively neglected aspect of the Holocaust.

Bishop von Galen

• Author : Beth A. Griech-Polelle
• Publisher : Yale University Press
• File Size : 18,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2008-10-01
• Genre: Biography & Autobiography
• Pages : 271
• ISBN 10 : 9780300131970

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Clemens August Graf von Galen, Bishop of Münster from 1933 until his death in 1946, is renowned for his opposition to Nazism, most notably for his public preaching in 1941 against Hitler’s euthanasia project to rid the country of sick, elderly, mentally retarded, and disabled Germans. This provocative and revisionist biographical study of von Galen views him from a different perspective: as a complex figure who moved between dissent and complicity during the Nazi regime, opposing certain elements of National Socialism while choosing to remain silent on issues concerning discrimination, deportation, and the murder of Jews. Beth Griech-Polelle places von Galen in the context of his times, describing how the Catholic Church reacted to various Nazi policies, how the anti-Catholic legislation of the Kulturkampf shaped the repertoire of resistance tactics of northwestern German Catholics, and how theological interpretations were used to justify resistance and/or collaboration. She discloses the reasons for von Galen’s public denunciation of the euthanasia project and the ramifications of his openly defiant stance. She reveals how the bishop portrayed Jews and what that depiction meant for Jews living in Nazi Germany. Finally she investigates the creation of the image of von Galen as “Grand Churchman-Resister” and discusses the implications of this for the myth of Catholic conservative “resistance” constructed in post-1945 Germany.

The Nazi Slaughter of the Disabled

• Author : Kurt Gerstein
• Publisher : American Bibliographical Press
• File Size : 17,6 Mb
• Release Date : 2017-05-19
• Genre: Uncategoriezed
• Pages : null
• ISBN 10 : 1937727718

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The German Euthanasia Program

• Author : Fredric Wertham
• Publisher : Hayes Publishing Company, Incorporated
• File Size : 8,7 Mb
• Release Date : 1977-01-01
• Genre: Atrocities
• Pages : 64
• ISBN 10 : 0910728097

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Culture in the Third Reich

• Author : Moritz Föllmer
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• File Size : 19,6 Mb
• Release Date : 2020-05-25
• Genre: History
• Pages : 331
• ISBN 10 : 9780198814603

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'It's like being in a dream', commented Joseph Goebbels when he visited Nazi-occupied Paris in the summer of 1940. Dream and reality did indeed intermingle in the culture of the Third Reich, racialist fantasies and spectacular propaganda set-pieces contributing to this atmosphere alongside more benign cultural offerings such as performances of classical music or popular film comedies. A cultural palette that catered to the tastes of the majority helped encourage acceptance of the regime. The Third Reich was therefore eager to associate itself with comfortable middle-brow conventionality, while at the same time exploiting the latest trends that modern mass culture had to offer. And it was precisely because the culture of the Nazi period accommodated such a range of different needs and aspirations that it was so successfully able to legitimize war, imperial domination, and destruction. Moritz F�llmer turns the spotlight on this fundamental aspect of the Third Reich's successful cultural appeal in this ground-breaking new study, investigating what 'culture' meant for people in the years between 1933 and 1945: for convinced National Socialists at one end of the spectrum, via the legions of the apparently 'unpolitical', right through to anti-fascist activists, Jewish people, and other victims of the regime at the other end of the spectrum. Relating the everyday experience of people living under Nazism, he is able to give us a privileged insight into the question of why so many Germans enthusiastically embraced the regime and identified so closely with it.

Critique of the Power of Judgment

• Author : Immanuel Kant
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 11,5 Mb
• Release Date : 2000-09-11
• Genre: History
• Pages : 4
• ISBN 10 : 0521588162

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The Critique of the Power of Judgment (a more accurate rendition of what has hitherto been translated as the Critique of Judgment) is the third of Kant's great critiques following the Critique of Pure Reason and the Critique of Practical Reason. This translation of Kant's masterpiece follows the principles and high standards of all other volumes in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant. This volume, first published in 2000, includes: the indispensable first draft of Kant's introduction to the work; an English edition notes to the many differences between the first (1790) and second (1793) editions of the work; and relevant passages in Kant's anthropology lectures where he elaborated on his aesthetic views. All in all this edition offers the serious student of Kant a dramatically richer, more complete and more accurate translation.

The German War

• Author : Nicholas Stargardt
• Publisher : Basic Books
• File Size : 6,7 Mb
• Release Date : 2015-10-13
• Genre: History
• Pages : 760
• ISBN 10 : 9780465073979

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A groundbreaking history of what drove the Germans to fight -- and keep fighting -- for a lost cause in World War II In The German War, acclaimed historian Nicholas Stargardt draws on an extraordinary range of firsthand testimony -- personal diaries, court records, and military correspondence -- to explore how the German people experienced the Second World War. When war broke out in September 1939, it was deeply unpopular in Germany. Yet without the active participation and commitment of the German people, it could not have continued for almost six years. What, then, was the war the Germans thought they were fighting? How did the changing course of the conflict -- the victories of the Blitzkrieg, the first defeats in the east, the bombing of German cities -- alter their views and expectations? And when did Germans first realize they were fighting a genocidal war? Told from the perspective of those who lived through it -- soldiers, schoolteachers, and housewives; Nazis, Christians, and Jews -- this masterful historical narrative sheds fresh and disturbing light on the beliefs and fears of a people who embarked on and fought to the end a brutal war of conquest and genocide.