Karl Brandt: The Nazi Doctor Medicine and Power in the Third Reich
by Schmidt, UlfFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-06-15
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury Academic
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This is the first full-scale biography of Karl Brandt, one of the most powerful figures of the Third Reich. It tells the story of his rise to power and influence at the heart of Hitler's coterie of trusted advisors and confidants. It also tells of his exe
Author Biography
Dr Ulf Schmidt is Professor of Modern History at the University of Kent, Canterbury, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a Research Associate at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford
Table of Contents
| List of illustrations | p. vii |
| Acknowledgements | p. xi |
| Abbreviations | p. xv |
| Prologue | p. 1 |
| The Ambitious Idealist | p. 19 |
| Becoming Hitler's Doctor | p. 53 |
| Hitler's Envoy | p. 87 |
| The 'Euthanasia' Doctor | p. 117 |
| The General Commissioner | p. 173 |
| Detached Leadership | p. 207 |
| Human Experimentation | p. 255 |
| Medical Supremo | p. 297 |
| Nuremberg | p. 325 |
| Trial | p. 351 |
| Under Sentence of Death | p. 385 |
| Notes | p. 401 |
| Bibliography | p. 445 |
| Index | p. 463 |
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