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Karl Brandt: The Nazi Doctor: Medicine and Power in the Third Reich
Contributor(s): Schmidt, Ulf (Author)
ISBN: 1847250319     ISBN-13: 9781847250315
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
OUR PRICE:   $76.00  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: August 2007
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Annotation: This is the first full-scale biography of Karl Brandt, one of the most powerful figures of the Third Reich. It tells the story of his rise to power and influence at the heart of Hitler's coterie of trusted advisors and confidants. It also tells of his exe
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- Biography & Autobiography | Medical (incl. Patients)
- History | Holocaust
Dewey: B
Physical Information: 1.71" H x 6.51" W x 9.21" (2.07 lbs) 496 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1900-1949
- Cultural Region - Germany
- Topical - Holocaust
- Chronological Period - 1940's
 
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Publisher Description:

Some sixty years after the Nuremberg trials, interest in the leading figures of the Third Reich continues unabated. Here, Ulf Schmidt recounts the meteoric rise of one of Hitler's most trusted advisers, Karl Brandt.

As Reich Commissioner for Health and Sanitation, Karl Brandt became the highest medical authority in
the Nazi regime. He was entrusted with the killing of handicapped children and adults - the so-called 'Euthanasia' Program - and played a part in illegal medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners. What drove a rational,
highly cultured, idealistic and talented young medic to become responsible for mass murder and criminal human experimentation on a previously unimaginable scale? This riveting biography explores in detail the level of culpability of one of the most intriguing of the Nuremberg Nazis.

Ulf Schmidt presents an incisive study of Brandt's political power as a way of exploring the contradictions
of Nazi medicine in which the care for wounded civilians and soldiers existed side by side with the murder of tens of thousands of unwanted people. Brandt's eventual capture and trial at Nuremberg in 1947 is also described in detail.

This book is the first major biography of Brandt, featuring substantial unseen documentation, and a lasting reminder of the horrors of the Third Reich.