Death And Deliverance: “Euthanasia” in Germany, 1900–1945

The Clara cell: a "Third Reich eponym"?

“…For all other documents of this kind, the reader should refer to the institute holding the archive. He was centrally involved in SS activities and is widely regarded as a key figure in the Nazi ''euthanasia'' programme, in which tens of thousands of psychiatric patients were murdered [21].…”

Child Murder in Nazi Germany: The Memory of Nazi Medical Crimes and Commemoration of “Children’s Euthanasia” Victims at Two Facilities (Eichberg, Kalmenhof)

“…In a section of his self-published tome The History of Vilification of Germany (Geschichte der Verfemung Deutschlands, 1967), he adopted Mitscherlich and Mielke's earlier mistaken identification of the Kalmenhof as "Kantenhof" and claimed that the killing of "crippled and idiotic" children was motivated by compassion and had been continued by the American occupiers after the end of the war. Thus he not only accused Americans of committing the same deeds as the Nazis but also promulgated the familiar Nazi depiction of the mass murder of disabled children as merciful deliverance from a baneful existence [92,93]. The Holocaust denier group VHO continues to make Scheidl's writings available on the Internet [94].…”

The role of mentalising in the management of violence

“…Reflective function may be high when empathy is low: studies of military atrocities suggest that there is no necessary connection between these two factors (Burleigh 1995;Browning 2001). It might be argued that in these men and women, the affective disturbance is unconscious but still present: what is consciously detectable is a disavowal of affect, characteristic of dismissing attachment systems (Bowlby 1960).…”