Charles Edward of Saxe-Coburg : the German Red Cross and the plan to kill "unfit" citizens 1933-1945 /

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Author / Creator:Rushton, Alan R., author.
Imprint:Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
Description:1 online resource (viii, 211 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12541725
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ISBN:9781527518438
1527518434
1527513408
9781527513402
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:Charles Edward was ruler of the German Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, president of the German Red Cross, and the grandson of Queen Victoria. He was closely allied with the rise of Adolf Hitler and the implementation of eugenic policies designed to improve German racial health. When war began in 1939, Hitler ordered a secret program of murder by poison gas and starvation to eliminate the mentally and physically handicapped ""ballast people""; approximately 250,000 people were eventually killed. Readers in medicine, law, sociology and history will be interested in this tragic story of a weak-wi
Other form:Print version: Rushton, Alan R. Charles Edward of Saxe-Coburg. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018 1527513408