Confronting the "Good Death": Nazi Euthanasia on Trial, 1945-1953
Editorial Reviews
(Janet Ward, co-author of German Studies in the Post-Holocaust Age, 2005)
"Bryant's book will be of great use to historians and Holocaust scholars and to general readers interested in human rights."
Book Description
Years before Hitler unleashed the "Final Solution" to annihilate European Jews, he began a lesser-known campaign to eradicate the mentally ill, which facilitated the gassing and lethal injection of as many as 270,000 people and set a precedent for the Nazis' mass murder of civilians.
In Confronting the "Good Death," Michael Bryant tells the story of the U.S. government and West German judiciary's attempt to punish the euthanasia killers after the war. His fascinating work is the first to address the impact of geopolitics on the courts' representation of Nazi euthanasia, revealing how international power relationships played havoc with the prosecutions.
Drawing on primary sources and extensive research in archives in Germany and the U.S., Bryant offers a provocative investigation of the Nazi campaign against the mentally ill and the postwar quest for justice. His work will interest general readers and provide critical information for scholars of Holocaust studies, legal history, and human rights.
Confronting the "Good Death": Nazi Euthanasia on Trial, 1945-1953,Michael S. Bryant,University Press of Colorado,0870818090,20th century,Europe - Germany,Euthanasia,Germany,History,History - General History,Holocaust,Legal History,Military,Military - World War II,Nazi persecution,People with disabilities,Trials (Genocide),Europe,Fascism & Nazism,The Holocaust
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