Confronting the "Good Death": Nazi Euthanasia on Trial, 1945-1953

Years before Hitler unleashed the "Final Solution" to annihilate European Jews, he began a lesser-known campaign to eradicate the mentally ill, which facilitated the gassing and lethal injection of as many as 270,000 people and set a precedent for the mass murder of civilians. In Confronting the "Good Death" Michael Bryant analyze the U.S. government's and West German judiciary's attempt to punish the euthanasia killers after the war. The first author to address the impact of geopolitics on...