Karl Brandt: The Nazi Doctor. Medicine and Power in the Third Reich, Ulf Schmidt (London and New York: Hambledon Continuum, 2007), xvi + 400 pp., illus., 29.95
Karl Brandt (1904–1948), one of Hitler's attending physicians, was co-director of the “euthanasia” program and general commissioner for health and sanitation. After an American military tribunal in Nuremberg sentenced him to death for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and membership in a cri...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 313-316 |
| Review of: | Karl Brandt (London [u.a.] : Hambledon Continuum, 2007) (Ben-Amos, Batsheva)
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| Summary: | Karl Brandt (1904–1948), one of Hitler's attending physicians, was co-director of the “euthanasia” program and general commissioner for health and sanitation. After an American military tribunal in Nuremberg sentenced him to death for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and membership in a criminal organization, many of his German contemporaries still considered him a “decent Nazi.” Brandt himself attempted to foster this image in his prison diary. In his biography of Brandt, Ulf Schmidt shows that Brandt was by no means such a “decent” person, critically analyzing Brandt's career and at the same time the regime's communications and decision-making processes. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcp020 |