Max de Crinis
Max de Crinis (1889-1945) was a German academic psychiatrist who worked with the Nazis in a number of efforts, including the planning of the euthanasia program[1] and, assisting counterespionage personnel of the SD, in field operations.
De Crinis, however, who Robert Jay Lifton called the "most outspoken and influential Nazi in the German psychiatric establishment", was both a respected physician and a Nazi activist. He worked with the RuSHA, but also performed respected research and probably protected some concentration camp and potential euthanasia victims.[2] After he examined Hitler and diagnosed Parkinson's Disease, he was part of an initiative for a 1945 armistice with the West, working with Heinrich Himmler, Leonardo Conti, and Walter Schellenberg. [3]
He committed suicide in May 1945.
References
- ↑ Robert Jay Lifton (1986), The Nazi Doctors: medical killing and the psychology of genocide, Basic Books, p. 65
- ↑ Gerstenbrand, Franz and Karamat, Elisabeth (1999), "(Abstract) Adolf Hitler's Parkinson's disease and an attempt to analyse his personality structure", European Journal of Neurology 6
- ↑ Lifton, pp. 120-122