“Growing consciousness of the Holocaust in both academic scholarship and society in general became evident in the late 1970s and intensified in the 1980s. Initially, important research focused on the different roles of Hitler, Nazi ideology, and the structure of the dictatorship in shaping the decision-making process that led to the Holocaust. Research also concentrated on the complicity of various professions and institutions in the Third Reich, and particularly on the SS. Still lacking was careful empirical study of how Nazi racial policy was also carried out by “ordinary” Germans.” >text (c) NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, 2013
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How Ordinary Germans Did “It”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags compliance, complicity, Germany, Harald Welzer, Holocaust, National Socialism, ordinary people, soldiers, Third Reich on 20 June 2013 by delclemNazi mass infanticide in Austria
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, disability, euthanasia, genocide, Germany, Heinrich Groos, infanticide, National Socialism, Third Reich on 20 May 2013 by delclemAndreas Nowak’s award-winning documentary A Perfectly Normal Doctor (2000) exposes the systematic practice of euthanasia – so-called “assisted death” – of disabled babies and children that took place during the Nazi period. While there were undoubtedly many physicians and nurses involved in such crimes throughout the Third Reich, this film focuses on Austrian Nazi doctor and later forensic psychiatrist Heinrich Gross who was in charge of a the children’s ward at the Viennese mental institution where 800 children were killed.
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