The First into the Dark: The Nazi Persecution of the Disabled

Abstract

Access the Audiobook. Under Nazi regime a secret program of euthanasia was undertaken against sick and disabled. Known as Krankenmorde (the murder sick) 300,000 people were killed. A further 400,000 sterilised their will. Many complicit doctors, nurses, soldiers bureaucrats would then perpetrate Holocaust. From eyewitness accounts, records case files, The First into Dark narrates history victims, perpetrators, opponents to witnesses Krankenmorde, reveals deeper implications for contemporary society: moral values ethical challenges in end life decisions, reproduction genetics, disability human rights, remembrance atonement past.