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The Surgeon Who Turned Care into Killing: Karl Brandt's Secret Origins
The Surgeon Who Turned Care into Killing: Karl Brandt's Secret Origins
A chilling conviction: Karl Brandt - once a gifted neurosurgeon and Hitler’s personal physician - died believing he was a healer even as he authorized the first state-sanctioned killing of a disabled infant that became a template for mass murder. How did medical training, academic theories of "merciful death," and intimate access to power transform a surgeon into an architect of systematic killing?
In this episode, we trace Brandt’s life from his January 8, 1904 birth in Mülhausen to his rise inside the Nazi elite, his…
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