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In
August 1944 Dr. Karl Brandt, Hitler's personal physician, was
appointed Reich Commissioner for Sanitation and Health, ranked as the
highest Reich authority. He was authorized to issue instructions to the
medical organizations of the government, to the party, and the armed forces,
in the field of health.
He
participated in the euthanasia program, which involved the systematic
execution of the aged, insane, incurably ill, or deformed children by gas or
lethal injections in nursing homes, hospitals and asylums.
They were
regarded as 'useless eaters' and a burden to the German war machine.
Karl Brandt
was one of the 15 defendants found guilty of war crimes at the Doctors
Trial. He was executed June 2, 1948 at Landsberg prison in Bavaria.
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