Karl Brandt: The Nazi Doctor: Medicine and Power in the Third Reich

<p class="MsoNormal">Some sixty years after the Nuremberg trials, interest in the<br/>leading figures of the Third Reich continues unabated. Here, Ulf Schmidt<br/>recounts the meteoric rise of one of Hitler's most trusted advisers, Karl Brandt.</p><br/><br/><p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <o:p /></p><br/><br/><p class="MsoNormal"><span>As Reich Commissioner<br/>for Health and Sanitation, Karl Brandt became the highest medical authority in<br/>the Nazi regime. He was entrusted with the killing of handicapped children and<br/>adults - the so-called ‘Euthanasia' Program - and played a part in illegal<br/>medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners. What drove a rational,<br/>highly cultured, idealistic and talented young medic to become responsible for<br/>mass murder and criminal human experimentation on a previously unimaginable<br/>scale? This riveting biography explores in detail the level of culpability of one<br/>of the most intriguing of the Nuremberg Nazis.<o:p /></span></p><br/><br/><p class="MsoNormal"><span><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <o:p /></span></p><br/><br/><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Ulf Schmidt presents<br/>an incisive study of Brandt's political power as a way of exploring </span><span>the contradictions<br/>of Nazi medicine in which the care for wounded civilians and soldiers existed<br/>side by side with the murder of tens of thousands of unwanted people.</span><span> Brandt's eventual capture and trial at<br/>Nuremberg in 1947 is also described in detail.<o:p /></span></p><br/><br/><p class="MsoNormal"><span><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <o:p /></span></p><br/><br/><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">This book is the first major biography of Brandt,<br/>featuring substantial unseen documentation, and a lasting reminder of the<br/>horrors of the Third Reich</span>>