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Confronting the "good death" : Nazi euthanasia on trial, 1945-1953

Author: Michael S Bryant
Publisher: Boulder : University Press of Colorado, ©2005.
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"Drawing on primary sources and extensive research, this investigation of the Nazi campaign against the mentally ill and the postwar quest for justice will interest general readers and provide critical information for scholars of Holocaust studies, legal history, and human rights."--BOOK JACKET.
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Bryant, Michael S., 1962-
Confronting the "good death"
Boulder : University Press of Colorado, c2005
(OCoLC)607640256
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Michael S Bryant
ISBN: 0870818090 9780870818097
OCLC Number: 61131734
Description: x, 269 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Contents: The emperor of ice-cream : Nationalist Socialist euthanasia, 1933-1945 --
Constructing mass murder : the United States euthanasia trials, 1945-1947 --
First reckonings : the German euthanasia trials, 1946-1947 --
Lucifer on the ruins of the world : the German euthanasia trials, 1948-1950 --
Law and power : the West German euthanasia trials, 1948-1953.
Responsibility: Michael S. Bryant.
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"Drawing on primary sources and extensive research, this investigation of the Nazi campaign against the mentally ill and the postwar quest for justice will interest general readers and provide critical information for scholars of Holocaust studies, legal history, and human rights."--BOOK JACKET.

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