The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution
by Henry Friedlander
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Henry Friedlander explores in chilling detail how the Nazi program of secretly exterminating the handicapped and disabled evolved into the systematic destruction of Jews and Gypsies. Tracing the rise of racist and eugenic ideologies in Germany, he describes how the so-called euthanasia of the handicapped provided a practical model for mass murder, thereby initiating the Holocaust. Based on extensive research in American, German, and Austrian archives as well as Allied and German court show more records, the book also analyzes the involvement of the German bureaucracy and judiciary, the participation of physicians and scientists, the motives of the killers, and the nature of popular opposition. Friedlander also sheds light on the special plight of handicapped Jews, who were the first singled out for murder. show lessTags
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- 943.086 — History & geography History of Europe Germany and neighboring central European countries Historical periods of Germany Germany 1866- Third Reich 1933-1945
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- DD256 .F739 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Germany History of Germany History By period Modern, 1519- 19th-20th centuries Revolution and Republic, 1918- Hitler, 1933-1945. National socialism Period of World War II, 1939-1945
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