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Nurses in Nazi Germany
Bronwyn Rebekah McFarland-Icke
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Description for Nurses in Nazi Germany
Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ; HPQ; MBX; MQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 657.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691006659
SKU
V9780691006659
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99-1
About Bronwyn Rebekah McFarland-Icke
Bronwyn Rebekah McFarland-Icke lives in Germany and is an adjunct lecturer in the University of Maryland's European Division.
Reviews for Nurses in Nazi Germany
"This thoughtful, thorough, and nuanced study rejects easy answers...Instead, the author seeks to explain how training, organization, and retraining under the Nazis prepared nurses to participate in murder."
Choice "In this groundbreaking book, McFarland-Icke has taken an important step in revealing how trained medical professionals killed in spite of a guilty conscience and carried out this task with precision, efficiency, and ... Read more
Choice "In this groundbreaking book, McFarland-Icke has taken an important step in revealing how trained medical professionals killed in spite of a guilty conscience and carried out this task with precision, efficiency, and ... Read more