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When the Healer Became Executioner: Karl Brandt and Medicine's Reckoning
When the Healer Became Executioner: Karl Brandt and Medicine's Reckoning
A physician who specialized in spinal injuries and once repaired the nervous system became the man who proposed carbon monoxide as a "humane" method of killing; how does clinical training become the architecture of state murder? This episode traces the path from medical apprenticeship to Aktion T4 and asks the central, unresolved question: where did authorization for industrialized killing begin and who made it medical?
In this episode, we lay out the life, influences, and choices that led Karl Brandt from a 1928 medical…
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