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1 online resource (viii, 211 pages) |
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Intro; Table of Contents; List of Tables; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; The Pro-Nationalist Opposition; Hitler's Rise to Power; Hitler and the Nobles; The Volk and Race before 1933; Eugenics and Political Reality 1930-1933; The NSDAP and Eugenic Policy 1930-1933; The Development of the 1933 Sterilization Law; Planning and Implementation of the 1933 Law; The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute and the Eugenic Law of 1933; Chapter Four; Children's Euthanasia Organization; The Killing Centers; Chapter Five; The Children's Euthanasia Program |
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Food Rationing and Local Starvation PChapter Six; The Transport Process; Chapter Seven; Dissemination of Euthanasia Knowledge in Germany; The Swiss Connection; The von Galen Sermon; The Swedish Connection; International Implications; An Omen; Chapter Eight; The Accomplishment of Charles Edward; Individual Protest and Personal Responsibility; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Charles Edward was ruler of the German Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, president of the German Red Cross, and the grandson of Queen Victoria. He was closely allied with the rise of Adolf Hitler and the implementation of eugenic policies designed to improve German racial health. When war began in 1939, Hitler ordered a secret program of murder by poison gas and starvation to eliminate the mentally and physically handicapped ""ballast people""; approximately 250,000 people were eventually killed. Readers in medicine, law, sociology and history will be interested in this tragic story of a weak-wi |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Karl Eduard, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, 1884-1954.
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Karl Eduard, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, 1884-1954 |
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Deutsches Rotes Kreuz -- History -- 20th century
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Deutsches Rotes Kreuz |
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People with disabilities -- Nazi persecution.
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Nobility -- Germany -- Saxe-Coburg-Gotha -- Biography
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20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000.
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Fascism & Nazism.
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War crimes.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
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Nobility
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People with disabilities -- Nazi persecution
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Europe -- Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
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Biographies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781527518438 |
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1527518434 |
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