title: [Medical holocaust. "Euthanasia" in Germany cca. 1935-45].
abstract: The method used in the industrialised mass murder of Jews was developed and tested within German psychiatry, where as many as 200,000 people were murdered under the "Euthanasia Programme". The doctors' professional enthusiasm for this programme, their distant contemplation of "life unworthy of life", can be understood as the establishment and legitimisation of certain rules of speech, which caused them to "forget" that they were dealing with people. Thus, German medicine was an important supplier of premises for the Nazi's extermination policy.
authors.affiliation: Seksjon for filosofi, Universitetet i Tromsø.
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authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wifstad
mesh_terms: D005053:Eugenics; D005065:Euthanasia / Q000266:history*; D005858:Germany; D049673:History, 20th Century; D017767:Holocaust; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000266:history*; D011056:Political Systems; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000266:history*
vernacular_title: Medisinens holocaust. "Eutanasi" i Tyskland ca. 1935-45.