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Death
and
Deliverance
'Euthanasia'
in
Germany
1900-1945
Michael
Burleigh
Ik'twccn
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and
1945
the
Nazis
systematically
murdered
as
many
as
200,000
mentally
of
life'.
ill
or
physically
disabled
people
whom
they
stigmatised
as
'life
unworthy
This
complex
and
covert
series
of
operations
was
known
as
the
'euthanasia'
programme.
It
provided
many
of
the
personnel
and
the
technical
expertise
later
in
the
'Final
Solution'.
deployed
This
is
the
first
full-scale
study
in
English
of
the
'euthanasia'
programme.
in
It
begins
by
establishing
the
dire
conditions
which
prevailed
after
asylums
during
and
the
I-'irst
World
War.
Partly
encouraged
by
government
cost-cutting
concerns,
but
also
by
the
need
to
improve
their
image,
psychiatrists
became
receptive
to
occupational
therapy
and
experiments
in
the
former
only
served
to
underline
the
more
community
care.
However,
patients,"
problem
presented
by
chronic
while
the
latter
raised
the
spectre
of
uncharted
depths
of
mental
illness
in
the
population
at
large.
Many
psychiatrists
became
receptive
to
drastic
'eugenic'
solutions
long
before
1933.
The
advent of
the
National
Socialist
government
brought
further
reductions
in
the care
of
the
asylum
population.
in
the
interests
Many
inmates
were
now
compulsorily
sterilised
of
racial fitness;
and
while
psychiatrists
enthusiastically
deployed
the
new
somatic
therapies
such
as
F.CT
to
treat
acute
cases,
many
of
them
a result,
subscribed
to
the
Nazis'
policy
of
killing
chronic
or
conflict
unproductive
cases.
There
was
thus
no
between
psychiatric
reform
and
extermination.
As
hundreds
of
thousands
of
men,
women
and
children
were
gassed,
starved
or
murdered
with
lethal
injections
in
a
series
of
ever-widening
programmes.
all
Uniquely,
this
book
considers
the
role
of
those
involved
in
these
policies:
bureaucrats,
doctors,
nurses,
health
officials,
lawyers,
clerics,
and
also
parents,
relatives,
it
and
the
patients
themselves.
Using
a
wealth
of
original
archival
material,
many
of
the
moral
issues
involved
in
a
way
that
is
profoundly
disquieting.
The
b(X)k
concludes
by
showing
the
ease
with
which
many
of
the
perpetrators
jihered
back
into
German
society
after
1945.
highlights
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DEATH
AND
DELIVERANCE
DEATH
AND
DELIVERANCE
'Euthanasia
in
'
c.
Germany
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MICHAEL
BURLEIGH
Reader
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Internattonal
History,
lyondon
School
of
I'conomus
and
Poltttcal
Science
Cambridge
UNIVERSITY
PRESS

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