Caring and Killing : Nursing and Psychiatric Practice in Germany, 1931–1943

Caring and Killing : Nursing and Psychiatric Practice in Germany, 1931–1943

Thomas Foth

Språken
FörlagV&R Unipress
ISBN9783847000624

Under the Nazi regime in Germany a calculated killing of chronic "mentally ill" patients took place. Nurses executed this program in their everyday practice. However, suspicions have been raised that psychiatric patients were also assassinated before and after the Nazi regime, suggesting that the mo