Nurses in Nazi Germany
Subtitle: moral choice in history
By: Bronwyn Rebekah McFarland-Icke
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
Subjects: Psychiatric nursing -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Nursing ethics -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Medical policy -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; National socialism and medicine -- Germany; World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities; Euthanasia -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Medical ethics -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Description: "This book tells the story of German nurses who, directly or indirectly, participated in the Nazis' "euthanasia" measures against patients with mental and physical disabilities, measures that claimed well over 100,000 victims from 1939 to 1945. How could men and women who were trained to care for their patients come to kill or assist in murder or mistreatment?

This is the central question pursued by Bronwyn McFarland-Icke as she details the lives of nurses from the beginning of the Weimar Republic through the years of National Socialist rule. Rather than examine what the Party did or did not order, she looks into the hearts and minds of people whose complicity in murder is not easily explained with reference to ideological enthusiasm."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-335) and index