Death And Deliverance: Euthanasia In Germany 1900 - 1945

Between 1939 and 1945 the Nazis systematically murdered as many as 200,000 mentally ill or physically disabled people whom they stigmatised as "life unworthy of life". This book is the first full-scale study in English of this complex and covert series of operations known as the "euthanasia" programme.

Using a wealth of original archive material, Michael Burleigh considers the role of all those involved in the programme: bureaucrats, doctors, nurses, health officials, lawyers, clerics, and also parents, relatives and the patients themselves.