{"product_id":"cleansing-the-fatherland-nazi-medicine-and-racial-hygiene-9780801848247","title":"Cleansing the Fatherland: Nazi Medicine and Racial Hygiene","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe chapters in this volume painfully drive home the point that certainly as far as Germany is concerned, the lessons of the Third Reich have not yet been learned . . . These significant attempts by younger recruits to the larger medical establishment to change things through eye-opening reflection and analysis, however uncomfortable, need support.--Michael H. Kater, author of \u003ci\u003eDoctors under Hitler\u003c\/i\u003e, in the foreword.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe infamous Nuremberg Doctors' Trials of 1946-47 revealed horrifying crimes --ranging from grotesque medical experiments on humans to mass murder--committed by physicians and other health care workers in Nazi Germany. But far more common, argue the authors of \u003ci\u003eCleansing the Fatherland, \u003c\/i\u003e were the doctors who profited professionally and financially from the killings but were never called to task--and, indeed, were actively shielded by colleagues in postwar German medical organizations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe authors examine the role of German physicians in such infamous operations as the T 4 euthanasia program (code-named for the Berlin address of its headquarters at Number 4 Tiergartenstrasse). They also reveal details of countless lesser known killings--all ordered by doctors and all in the name of public health. Maladjusted adolescents, the handicapped, foreign laborers too illto work, even German civilians who suffered mental breakdowns after air raids were selected for treatment. (One physician who persisted in speaking of killings was officially reprimanded for his negative attitude.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book also includes original documents--never before published in English--that give unique and chilling insight into the everyday workings of Nazi medicine. Among them: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Minutes from a 1940 meeting of the Conference of German Mayors, at which a Nazi official gives the assembled politicians detailed instructions for the secret burial of murdered mental patients.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- A pre-Nazi era questionnaire sent by the head of a state mental institution to parents of disabled children. (Sample question: Would you agree to a painless shortening of your child's life after an expert had determined him incurably imbecilic? Sample answer: Yes, but I would prefer not to know.) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- The diary of Dr. Hermann Voss, chief anatomist at the Reichs University of Posen (and later a highly respected physician in postwar Germany), who delights in the flowers blooming outside his window and worries that the overstock of Polish cadavers from his Gestapo suppliers might cause his crematory oven to break down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Letters of Dr. Friedrich Mennecke, director of the notorious Eichberg Clinic, who writes with cloying sentimentality to the wife he calls mommy and comments offhandedly about visiting concentration camps to select patients for death. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday, as reports of mass death in Europe are once again cast in terms of public hygiene, and as euthanasia is advocated--even applauded--on U.S. television, the relevance of what Michael H.Kater here calls the lessons of the Third Reich is perhaps greater than ever. Against this background, \u003ci\u003eCleansing the Fatherland\u003c\/i\u003e sends a stark message that is difficult to ignore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Götz Aly, Peter Chroust, Christian Pross\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/12\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.95h x 5.96w x 0.86d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801848247\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/15\/1994 pg. 92\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGötz Aly \u003c\/b\u003eis a freelance political scientist and historian. He is editor of \u003ci\u003eBeiträge zur nationalsozialistischen Gesundheits- und Sozialpolitik.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePeter Chroust\u003c\/b\u003e is on the scientific staff of the Zentrum für Historische Sozialforschung at the University of Cologne. \u003cb\u003eChristian Pross, M.D., \u003c\/b\u003e is medical director of the Berlin Center for the Treatment of Torture Victims.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40389510791283,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":47.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_918f0896-a001-406a-970d-80a1e91199f5.jpg?v=1661608922","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/cleansing-the-fatherland-nazi-medicine-and-racial-hygiene-9780801848247","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}