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The origins of Nazi genocide : from euthanasia to the final solution

Henry Friedlander explores in chilling detail how the Nazi program of secretly exterminating people with disabilities 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 people with disabilities provided a practical model for mass murder, thereby initiating the Holocaust

Print Book, English, 1995
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1995