Death and Deliverance

Euthanasia in Germany, 1900 to 1945

by Michael Burleigh

1994 382 pages eng

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 complex and covert series of operations was known as the 'euthanasia' programme. It provided many of the personnel and the tech…