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The origins of Nazi genocide : from euthanasia to the final solution / Henry Friedlander.
- Title
- The origins of Nazi genocide : from euthanasia to the final solution / Henry Friedlander.
- Author
- Friedlander, Henry, 1930-2012.
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | DD256.5 .F739 1995 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xxiii, 421 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- 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 handicapped provided a practical model for mass murder, thereby initiating the Holocaust.
- Based on extensive research in American, German, and Austrian archives as well as Allied and German court records, the book also analyzes the involvement of the German bureaucracy and judiciary, the participation of physicians and scientists, the motives of the killers, and the nature of popular opposition. Friedlander also sheds light on the special plight of handicapped Jews, who were the first singled out for murder.
- Alternative Title
- Nazi genocide
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- Homicide > history
- Euthanasia > history
- National Socialism > history
- Holocaust > history
- Disabled Persons > history
- Homicide
- History, 20th Century
- Euthanasia
- National Socialism
- Holocaust
- Disabled Persons
- National socialism > Moral and ethical aspects
- Euthanasia > Political aspects > History > Germany > 20th century
- Medical ethics > Germany > History > 20th century
- Genocide > Germany > History > 20th century
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Romani Genocide, 1939-1945
- People with disabilities > Germany > History > 20th century
- World War, 1939-1945 > Atrocities
- Germany
- Germany > Politics and government > 1933-1945
- Genre/Form
- History
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-401) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0807822086 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^94040941^
- OCLC
- 31604459
- SCSB-12396332
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library