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Death and Deliverance: 'Euthanasia' in Germany, c.1900 to 1945 Capa comum – 27 outubro 1994

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Between 1939 and 1945 the Nazis systematically murdered as many as 200,000 mentally ill or physically disabled people whom they stigmatised as 'life unworthy of life'. This complex and covert series of operations was known as the 'euthanasia' programme. It provided many of the personnel and the technical expertise later deployed in the 'Final Solution'. This is the first full-scale study in English of the 'euthanasia' programme. It considers the role of all those involved in these policies: bureaucrats, doctors, nurses, health officials, lawyers, clerics, and also parents, relatives, and the patients themselves. Using a wealth of original archival material, it highlights many of the moral issues involved in a way that is profoundly disquieting. The book concludes by showing the ease with which many of the perpetrators filtered back into German society after 1945.
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  1. Número de páginas
    400 páginas
  2. Idioma
    Inglês
  3. Editora
    Cambridge University Press
  4. Data da publicação
    27 outubro 1994
  5. Dimensões
    15.24 x 1.91 x 22.86 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0521477697
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0521477697
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Between 1939 and 1945 the Nazis systematically murdered as many as 200,000 mentally ill or physically disabled people whom they stigmatised as 'life unworthy of life'. Death and Deliverance is the first full-scale study in English of this so-called 'euthanasia' programme, and is based on extensive and profoundly disturbing archival material.

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  • Editora ‏ : ‎ Cambridge University Press (27 outubro 1994)
  • Idioma ‏ : ‎ Inglês
  • Capa comum ‏ : ‎ 400 páginas
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0521477697
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0521477697
  • Dimensões ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 1.91 x 22.86 cm
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javier
5,0 de 5 estrelas Ok, buenas condiciones de conservacion
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Kate
5,0 de 5 estrelas the viewer in better housing, or more food access
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Difficult to read, but important as so many books covering this period tend to focus on the 'Final Solution' and ignore the 70,000+ who were killed because of their mental disorders, birth defects, congenital malformations and diseases and injuries that resulted in loss of productivity. This text is important because it lays out the historical factors that lead first to the eugenics movements and Germany's eventual sterilization policies which were bolstered by the forced sterilization policies in the U.S. and moved toward the 'life unfit for life' philosophy that was being intellectually discussed by both the right and left leaning philosophers, to the eventual killing through starvation, injection and gassing of people held in asylums and hospitals.
These policies did not happen merely because of the madness of the National Socialist Policies, but in a intellectual debate on what it is to be human which was being held across national boundaries, whose arguments supported the ideas of the Nazi Party on genetic superiority, and the purification of the volk that would make up the Germany of the future.
The methods and the secrecy of these systematic killings did not come from demands on high, as the some histories would have one believe, with participants acting in fear of their lives and under duress. It started with the change in the civil service system, placing Party members in charge of asylums, the cutting of all funds to maintain those who had the least protections and political voice, it involved the collusion of thosands in the selection process, the killing and the disposal of remains and the vast bureaucracy that collected data on who was unworthy of life and to create the death certificates that were sent to families listing one of the 92 causes of death they could list that might not create to much questioning from families.
The men and women who were the main actors in this euthanasia developed the methods and indeed were some of the people transferred to run the death camps, because they had become so skilled in the murders of the 'unfit'.
Strangely, post war very few of these people were ever brought to trail by German authorities, who either acquitted them or gave them light sentences such as several months to four years for the direct murder of thousands, as the courts declared that these perpetrators did not know that the killing of thousands of Germans was illegal. Also many of these perpetrators were honored members of the community and friend of people in high places in post-war Germany.
It also has a chapter that focuses on the film propaganda, and the tourist trade the government provided giving thousands of Germans tours of asylums so they could see for themselves how unworthy of life these charges were. The films presented the economic arguments, telling audiences how much it cost to maintain these creatures, when these funds could go to them, the viewer in better housing, or more food access, if only the state wasn't being burdened.
Atrocities will always be with us, but they are not only the work of a few, these few always need the complicity of the general population, the willingness of a large number of people who can be bought with additional pay, food & alcohol allowances, and the right to some of the spoils of those they dispose of.
This text is quite balanced giving no quarter to any specific point of view, but by providing documents and diaries of perpetrators lets the reader come to their own conclusions. A very important read on the direction medical and personnel can easily be subverted.
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Maria B.
5,0 de 5 estrelas Well informed and personal.
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Michael Burleigh is very well read on this subject. His book goes into quite some detail on the many aspects of the forced "euthanasia" of the sick and the handicapped before and during the Third Reich. His style is sometimes personal, a different approach from many others, who have tried to just state the facts. In his text, Burleigh refers to many other books and films, both in German and English. This work is a comprehensive introduction to a very difficult piece of history, that is still very relevant in times of dire economic circumstances..
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HL
5,0 de 5 estrelas Excellent but harrowing
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This book is a detailed history of euthanasia in Germany in the first half of the 20th century. It lays out the thinking of the professionals who abhorred the waste of money on those 'unworthy of life', allowing the growth of an ethos that found killing the mentally & physically ill acceptable. Burleigh details the lives of some of the tens of thousands who perished in the aktions of T4 - it made me weep. He also looks at the perpetrators - professionals & otherwise. A disturbing but necessary book.
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Rebecca Blackwell
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