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| Title: | Confronting the 'Good Death'
: Nazi Euthanasia on Trial, 1945-1953 |
| Author: | Michael S Bryant |
| ISBN: | 0870818090 : 9780870818097 |
| Illustrations: | 13 b/w photos & 1 map |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 269 |
| Weight: | .53 Kg. |
| Published: | University Press of Colorado - December 2005 |
| List Price: | 23.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | The Holocaust: Fascism & Nazism |
This readable study analyses the post-war attempt to prosecute perpetrators of a Nazi campaign against the mentally ill that facilitated 270,000 murders and set a precedent for Nazi mass murder.
Introduction; The Emperor of Ice-Cream: Nationalist Socialist Euthanasia, 1933-1945; Constructing Mass Murder: The United States Euthanasia Trials, 1945-1947; First Reckonings: The German Euthanasia Trials, 1946-1947; Lucifer on the Ruins of the World: The German Euthanasia Trials, 1948-1950; Law and Power: The West German Euthanasia Trials, 1948-1953; Conclusion.
