Title: Nurses in Nazi Germany
First published: 1999
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.
Subjects: Atrocities, Euthanasia, History, Medical ethics, Medical policy, Moral and ethical aspects, Moral and ethical aspects of Psychiatric nursing, National socialism and medicine, Nursing ethics, Psychiatric nursing, World War, 1939-1945, Nurses, biography, Germany, history, 1933-1945, 20th century, Allied Health Personnel
Places: Germany
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: RC440 .M325 1999