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Patients,
Physicians,
and
the
License
to
Kill
in
the
Third
Reich
HUGH
GREGORY
GALLAGHF"
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September
of
1939,
immediately
after
he
started
World
War
II
by
sending
an
invading
army
into
Poland,
Adolf
Hitler
signed
an
order
In
declaring
war
on
his
fellow
that
is,
German
citizens
those
of
his
fellow
citizens
ill,
crippled,
mentally
or
disabled.
who
were
The
directive
was
given
Dr.
to
two
of
Hitlers
closest
associates,
Karl
Brandt,
his
personal
physician,
and
Reichsleiter Philip
Bouhler,
the
chief
of
his
up
a
program
that
enabled
German
physicians
to
kill
anyone
deemed
"unworthy
of
life."
Under
the
influence
chancellery.
to
set
They
were
of
the
then-fashionable
apocalyptic
theories
of
eugenics,
many
German
doctors
greeted
this
blood-chilling
idea
as
a
"technological
break-
through"
and
an
example
of
the
new
regime
s
advanced
thinking,
while
the
majority
simply
accepted
it
without
protest.
Despite
this
acceptance,
and
a
barrage
of
propaganda
in
books,
movies,
newspapers,
and
magazines
attempting
to
justify
euthanasia,
public
outrage
began
to
grow.
Because
of
the
resistance
of
brave
disabled
people
and
because
of
the
public
sermons
of
important
clergy,
in-
cluding
Clemens
von
Galen,
the
Bishop
of
Munster,
Hitler
rescinded
his
official
order,
suf-
fering
the
only
major
policy
reversal of
his
twelve
years
in
power.
Despite
the
absence
of
an
official
order,
however,
the
doctors
kill
who
had
been
do
so
without
any
fear
of
reprisal
or
prosecution.
More
than
200,000
people
were
killed
under
the
program
throughout
the
war
and
even,
in
some
cases,
authorized
to
continued
to
during
the
occupation
that
followed
the
war.
Hugh
Gallaghers
moving
book
to
tell
the
study
is
the
first
complete
story
of
this
particular
aspect
of
the
Nazi
nightmare.
Based
on
exten-
sive
research,
including
captured
Nazi
docu-
ments
and
the
full
deposition
and
interrogation
transcripts
taken
by
the
U.S.
after
the
surrender,
it
Army
immediately
is
a
riveting
account
cover-
ing the
smallest
details
of
how
the
killing
centers
functioned
as
well
as the
larger
social
and
his-
torical
context.
The
people
who
administered
most
"humane"
the
program
deceived
themselves
with
"detox-
ified"
language,
talking
of
the
way
to
kill,
or
telling
parents
that their
children
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