Origins of Nazi Genocide From Euthanasia to the Final Solution

Name: Origins of Nazi Genocide From Euthanasia to the Final Solution
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ISBN: 9780807846759

ISBN-10: 0807846759

ISBN-13: 9780807846759

Edition: 3rd 1997

Authors: Henry Friedlander

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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…

Book details

List price: $47.50
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 9/22/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.804
Language: English

Henry Friedlander was professor of history in the department of Judaic studies at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and coeditor of the 26-volume Archives of the Holocaust Series.



Preface


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Note on Language



The Setting



Excluding the Handicapped



Killing Handicapped Children



Killing Handicapped Adults



The Killing Centers



Toward the Killing Pause



The Expanded Killing Program



The Continued Killing Program



The Handicapped Victims



Managers and Supervisors



Physicians and Other Killers



Excluding Gypsies



Killing Handicapped Jews



The Final Solution


Notes


Bibliography


Index