List of illustrations; Introduction and acknowledgements; Part I. Saving Money, Spending Lives: 1. Winter landscapes: psychiatric reform and retrenchment during the Weimar Republic; 2. Hope and hard times: asylums in the 1930s; Part II. Gods in White Coats: 3. 'Wheels must roll for victory'!: children's euthanasia and 'aktion T-4'; 4. 'The psychopaths' club'; 5. 'Gentlemen's agreements'; Responses to the 'euthanasia' programe; Part III. Euthanasia and Racial Warfare: 6. Selling murder: the killing films of the Third Reich; 7. Evil empires: from 'Aktion 14f13' to Trieste; 8. Medieval or modern? 'Euthanasia' programmes 1941–1945; Part IV. Aftermaths: 9. How Professor Heyde became Dr Sawade; 10. Singer Australian academic jets in bearing old message to be denied the right to speak by German 'alternative' fascists?; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
The first full-scale study in English of the Nazis' so-called 'euthanasia' programme in which over 200,000 people perished.
'Indictment is brilliantly combined with memorial … he restores
personality to individuals deemed unworthy of life. History writing
is rarely this moving, or so admirably, effectively moralistic.'
David Cesarani, The Guardian
'Everyone ought to read it … It is difficult to believe that this
account could be improved upon … '. Anthony Storr, The Times
'Death and Deliverance is humane, tough-minded, thoroughly
researched, and breaks new ground in some neglected areas … the
book is refreshinlgy free of intellectual jargon and cant without
over-simplifying the isues involved.' Jeremy Noakes, University of
Exeter
'Starkly written and impressively researched, it focuses on the
lives of the victims, the administrators and medical personnel, and
on public repsonses. This is a distinguished historical
contribution.' Paul Weindling, University of Oxford
'This is the most illuminating discussion of the Nazi 'euthanasia'
programme yet published. The thorough documentation and chilling
quotations bring out the extent of the complicity of the medical
profession, and the extent to which the programme was ideologically
driven. It is also a powerful study of the way propaganda can make
the unthinkable seem normal. The 'euthanasia' programme is too
little known, and the lessons to be learnt from this book are
important.' Jonathan Glover, University of Oxford
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