By Trust Betrayed: Patients, Physicians, and the License to Kill in the Third Reich

Award-winning author Hugh Gregory Gallagher's moving study of the systematic murder of the physically and mentally disabled in Nazi Germany is a riveting account that covers the subject from the larger social context to the smallest details of how the killing centers functioned. It is based on extensive research, including captured Nazi documents, transcripts of testimony of the doctors and other participants in the killing program, and personal interviews. By Trust Betrayed provides new insight into the horror of ordinary people doing monstrous things under the aegis of "science" in Nazi Germany. It also raises troubling questions about many contemporary issues and ideas dealing with euthanasia, healthcare, and medical ethics.Hugh Gregory Gallagher is the author of 'By Trust Betrayed: Patients, Physicians, and the License to Kill in the Third Reich' with ISBN 9780918339362 and ISBN 0918339367.