The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution

Henry Friedlander

ISBN 10: 0807846759 / ISBN 13: 9780807846759

Editore: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997

Abnutzung / Risse - leicht. Tracing the rise of racist and eugenic ideologies, 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. He describes how the so-called euthanasia of the handicapped provided a practical model for the later mass murder, thereby initiating the Holocaust.The Nazi regime pursued the extermination of Jews, Gypsies, and the handicapped based on a belief in the biological, and thus absolute, inferiority of those groups. To document the connection between the assault on the handicapped and the Final Solution, Friedlander shows how the legal restrictions and exclusionary policies of the 1930s, including mass sterilization, led to mass murder during the war. He also makes clear that the killing centers where the handicapped were gassed and cremated served as the models for the extermination camps.Based on extensive archival research, the book also analyzes the involvement of the German bureaucracy and judiciary, the participation of physicians and scientists, and the nature of popular opposition. Codice articolo b0b0dfef-e3ae-4eb7-a292-5f9c950e6d14

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Titolo: The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From ...
Casa editrice: The University of North Carolina Press
Data di pubblicazione: 1997
Legatura: Softcover
Condizione: Fine