{"product_id":"karl-brandt-the-nazi-doctor-medicine-and-power-in-the-third-reich-9781847250315","title":"Karl Brandt: The Nazi Doctor: Medicine and Power in the Third Reich","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKarl Brandt: The Nazi Doctor: Medicine and Power in the Third Reich\u003c\/strong\u003e by Schmidt, Ulf. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781847250315.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome sixty years after the Nuremberg trials, interest in the leading figures of the Third Reich continues unabated. Here, Ulf Schmidt recounts the meteoric rise of one of Hitlers most trusted advisers, Karl Brandt.\n\nAs Reich Commissioner for Health and Sanitation, Karl Brandt became the highest medical authority in\nthe Nazi regime. He was entrusted with the killing of handicapped children and adults - the so-called Euthanasia Program - and played a part in illegal medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners. What drove a rational,\nhighly cultured, idealistic and talented young medic to become responsible for mass murder and criminal human experimentation on a previously unimaginable scale? This riveting biography explores in detail the level of culpability of one of the most intriguing of the Nuremberg Nazis.\n\nUlf Schmidt presents an incisive study of Brandts political power as a way of exploring the contradictions\nof Nazi medicine in which the care for wounded civilians and soldiers existed side by side with the murder of tens of thousands of unwanted people. Brandts eventual capture and trial at Nuremberg in 1947 is also described in detail.\n\nThis book is the first major biography of Brandt, featuring substantial unseen documentation, and a lasting reminder of the horrors of the Third Reich.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44976491135029,"sku":"ByrdShop_1847250319","price":64.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781847250315_9b271214-591a-45f0-a5f6-00d25ac4a27e.jpg?v=1778832800","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/karl-brandt-the-nazi-doctor-medicine-and-power-in-the-third-reich-9781847250315","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}