Confronting the "Good Death": Nazi Euthanasia on Trial, 1945-1953.(Book review)

From: The Historian | Date: December 22, 2007| Author: Thornton, Larry | Copyright information

Confronting the "Good Death": Nazi Euthanasia on Trial, 1945-1953. By Michael S. Bryant. (Boulder, Colo.: University Press of Colorado, 2005. Pp. xiii, 269. $34.95.)

The first National Socialist killing program consumed Germany's long-term institutionalized mentally ill and handicapped. After the war, perpetrators of the euthanasia program were tried in American military tribunals and in reconstituted West German courts. Using trial transcripts and verdicts, Michael S. B...

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