Charles Edward of Saxe-Coburg: The German Red Cross and the Plan to Kill “Unfit” Citizens 1933-1945Charles Edward was ruler of the German Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, president of the German Red Cross, and the grandson of Queen Victoria. He was closely allied with the rise of Adolf Hitler and the implementation of eugenic policies designed to improve German racial health. When war began in 1939, Hitler ordered a secret program of murder by poison gas and starvation to eliminate the mentally and physically handicapped “ballast people”; approximately 250,000 people were eventually killed.
Readers in medicine, law, sociology and history will be interested in this tragic story of a weak-willed, but powerful Nazi leader who facilitated this murderous program, even though one of his own relatives died in the “euthanasia” scheme. Although Charles Edward traveled to neutral countries during the war, he did nothing to broadcast the inhumane treatment of his own and thousands of other families whose relatives disappeared into the murder machine. |
Contents
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Chapter Three | 39 |
Chapter Four | 67 |
Chapter Five | 89 |
Chapter Six | 99 |
Chapter Seven | 111 |
Chapter Eight | 143 |
Notes | 173 |
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