Abstract
My initial thought on encountering Justice at Nuremberg was that finally I would have the chance to get to know the defendants, whom at age 19 I personally encountered and photographed as a member of the U.S. Army’s photo detachment assigned to officially document the Trial with sound movies. (The movies are now in the U.S. National Archives.) For several months I observed the sullen and glum defendants, trying to penetrate what turned out to be their impenetrable visages. In the subsequent years of my continued interest and intermittent searching, I turned up nothing more than bits and pieces of information, such as that convicted defendant Herta Oberhauser was trying to resume medical practice in North Germany in the fifties. Even the arrival of the internet 50 years later did not point me anywhere revealing. Now I would get the answers.
Highlights
The Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial is a dimly remembered event, but one of legend and unique importance
Brandt’s ideology was in full accord with Hitler’s racial ideas. Brandt would achieve his goals by orchestrating the deaths of thousands of victims through his euthanasia program, thereby ridding Germany and Europe of thousands of “useless eaters.”
In Karl Brandt - The Nazi Doctor: Medicine and Power in the Third Reich, Schmidt gives as full a biography as seems to be possible, one that depends mostly on Trial documentation, the interview reports of Leo Alexander, the archives of the Nazi government, and such information as can be garnered from the surviving Brandt family
Summary
The Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial is a dimly remembered event, but one of legend and unique importance. Ulf Schmidt’s Karl Brandt – The Nazi Doctor: Medicine and Power in the Third Reich and Justice at Nuremberg: Alexander and the Nazi Doctors’ Trial
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