Nazi euthanasia program/Related Articles

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Holocaust [r]: Nazi Germany's systematic economic exploitation, followed by killing, of European Jews and others deemed racial and ideological enemies ^[e]
Euthanasia [r]: The act of assisting in the death of an animal or patient, often to end suffering for an incurable disease; a painless death; sometimes called a mercy killing which may or may not be legal. ^[e]
Nazi medical experiments [r]: Part of Holocaust was a program of nonconsensual medical experiments, primarily conducted at concentration camps, for which many of those conducted them were tried for war crimes ^[e]

Viktor Brack [r]: Add brief definition or description
Philip Bouhler [r]: (1899-1945) Business manager of early Nazi Party; Head of the Chancellery of the Fuehrer, Adolf Hitler's personal office; key manager of the Nazi euthanasia program; committed suicide at war's end ^[e]
Kurt Blome [r]: Add brief definition or description
Leonardo Conti [r]: (1900-1945) Nazi Reich Health Leader (1939-1944), who headed the Nazi euthanasia program before Werner Heyde but was succeeded by Karl Brandt; also involved in Nazi medical experiments; committed suicide while awaiting trial ^[e]
Max de Crinis [r]: Add brief definition or description
Karl Brandt [r]: Add brief definition or description
Ernst Grawitz [r]: Add brief definition or description
Werner Heyde [r]: (1902-1964) Psychiatrist and SS-Standartenfuehrer who headed the euthanasia program from 1939 to 1942, and directed psychiatrists who studied camp prisoners; not indicted but testified in the Medical Case (NMT); later assumed a false identity; arrested in 1962 and committed suicide before trial ^[e]
Waldemar Hoven [r]: SS-Hauptsturmfueher and camp physician at Buchenwald Concentration Camp; executed for war crimes as a result of the Medical Case (NMT) ^[e]
Franz Stangl [r]: Add brief definition or description

Nuremberg Military Tribunals [r]: A set of twelve trials of officials of Nazi Germany, conducted by the United States in its zone of occupation of Germany, following the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) ^[e]