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The origins of Nazi genocide, from euthanasia to the Final Solution, Henry Friedlander

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The origins of Nazi genocide

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Henry Friedlander

from euthanasia to the Final Solution

Henry Friedlander explores in chilling detail how the Nazi program of secretly exterminating the handicapped and disabled evolved into the systematic destruction of Jews and Gypsies. Tracing the rise of racist and eugenic ideologies in Germany, he describes how the so-called euthanasia of the handicapped provided a practical model for mass murder, thereby initiating the Holocaust

The setting -- Excluding the handicapped -- Killing handicapped children -- Killing handicapped adults -- The killing centers -- Toward the killing pause -- The expanded killing program -- The continued killing program -- The handicapped victims -- Managers and supervisors -- Physicians and other killers -- Excluding gypsies -- Killing handicapped Jews -- The final solution