Nurses in Nazi Germany Hardcover – November 1, 1999 Author: Visit Amazon's Bronwyn Rebekah McFarland-Icke Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0691006652 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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When Nazi Germany is the question, there are no easy answers. History looks back on those dark days and screams, simply, "Why?" In this careful book, Bronwyn Rebekah McFarland-Icke examines the Nazi euthanasia programs inflicted on the mentally and physically disabled between 1939 and 1945, which resulted in more than 100,000 deaths. Looking specifically at the psychiatric nurses who collaborated in treatments and experiments that abused or killed their subjects, McFarland-Icke finds an eclectic set of responses from a group of people who were, for the most part, ordinary Germans. "There is a great deal of evidence to suggest that people's choices in daily life did not, and could not, reflect a complete acceptance or rejection of National Socialism as a coherent entity representing a set of coherent principles," writes McFarland-Icke. This is a subtler work than Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's
Hitler's Willing Executioners. Indeed,
Nurses in Nazi Germany deliberately avoids sensational conclusions. Relying on previously neglected material, it is a sober study of human action under extraordinary pressure and strain. The focus of the book may make it seem specialized, but it addresses larger matters that concern anybody who is interested in the Holocaust, propaganda, and moral choices.
--John J. MillerFrom Library Journal
Many scholars have examined the "euthanasia" policies that took place in Nazi Germany. While most studies look at the role of higher-level administrators and physicians, McFarland-Icke questions how the lower-level staff, the "ordinary Germans," reacted to orders to participate in these programs. The author researched personnel files, trial testimonies, and articles from German nursing journals and textbooks to analyze the training and behavior of nurses employed in mental institutions. Based on her dissertation, the book describes the history of German psychiatric nursing in the years leading up to and including the National Socialism era. This analysis shows how nurses were treated and furnishes insight into the coping strategies they developed. Prior knowledge of Nazi terminology, history, and programs is assumed. Recommended for academic and bioethics collections.
-Tina Neville, Univ. of South Florida at St. Petersburg Lib. Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- Hardcover: 304 pages
- Publisher: Princeton University Press; 1st edition (November 1, 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0691006652
- ISBN-13: 978-0691006659
- Product Dimensions: 1.2 x 6.4 x 9.4 inches
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- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,073,670 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Nowhere is the collective madness that Nazi Germany descended into better documented than in this story of its policy of euthanasia of its own infirm citizens. Although it is just an overview, it does provide the reader with an excellent starting point in learning about just how comprehensive and ambitious was this "ethnic cleansing" effort on the part of the National Socialists. Author Bronwyn Rebekah McFarland-Icke surveys the wide range of Nazi extermination programs as visited by the government on the mentally and physically handicapped based on their medically based crackpot theories associated with more positive programs of eugenics. It's a little known fact, for example, that physician and medical researcher Josef Mengele, later the Auschwitz "Angel of Death", was a respected member of the greater European medical research community in the late 1920s-1930s.
This work is frightening in its examination of how easily these ideas and medical practices were incorporated into everyday practice, so that doctors, nurses and other medical personnel adopted and practiced them with little or no immediate feelings of either guilt or shame over the collective practice of eugenic ritual murder they were introducing into society. Interestingly, although this is a sensational subject, the author does not dwell on these elements so much as she asks some penetrating and intriguing questions regarding how easily and universally the German medical community adopted such practices starting in 1939 without asking any questions. Of course, while it is easy in retrospect to see how horrific these policies were, the social, political, and cultural situation in the Third Reich were hardly tolerant of such questioning attitudes or inconvenient questioning.
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