Hitler's Culture of Death: Terror, Euthanasia, Holocaust

Outline:

A.  Bringing Hitler to power.  Chancellor.  Minister of the Interior for the State of Prussia.  National Emergency suspends the constitution. Night of the Long Knives.  A nation terrorized by its government.  Mechanisms of State terror.

B.  Church-State relations in Nazi Germany.  Geneology.  The Mischlinge Problem

C. The Euthanasia Campaign:  “the responsibility of enlarging the authority of certain physicians to be designated by name in such a matter that persons who according to human judgment are incurable can upon a careful diagnosis of their condition of sickness, be accorded a mercy death.”  September 1939

D.  After the Euthanasia Campaign, SS doctors shifted to the East