The origins of Nazi genocide : from euthanasia to the Final Solution /

The origins of Nazi genocide : from euthanasia to the Final Solution / Henry Friedlander.

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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. Tracing the rise of racist and eugenic ideologies in Germany, he describes how the so-called euthanasia of the handic...

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Online Access (via Alexander Street Press)
Main Author: Friedlander, Henry, 1930-2012
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
Subjects:
National socialism > Moral and ethical aspects.
Euthanasia > Political aspects > Germany > History > 20th century.
Medical ethics > Germany > History > 20th century.
Genocide > Germany > History > 20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Germany > Politics and government > 1933-1945.
Table of Contents:
  • The setting
  • Excluding the handicapped
  • Killing handicapped children
  • Killing handicapped adults
  • The killing centers
  • Toward the killing pause
  • The expanded killing program
  • The continued killing program
  • The handicapped victims
  • Managers and supervisors
  • Physicians and other killers
  • Excluding gypsies
  • Killing handicapped Jews
  • The final solution.

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