1947-07-19, #15: Doctors' Trial (Viktor Brack's personal statement)
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THE PRESIDENT: The defendant Brack. DR. BRACK: Your Honor, in 1929, I joined the NSDAP when more than six million German voters were already backing Hitler. His later successes during the years of peaceful reconstruction consolidated my conviction that he had forever liberated Germany from the misery in which it seemed to have fallen. For all those years, therefore, I had no reason to have any misgivings with regard to Hitler's personality and thus I also believed in the legality of the euthanasia decree as emanated directly from the head of the state. The state officials and doctors, competent for me at that time, told me that the euthanasia had always been an endeavor of mankind and was morally as well as medically justified. Therefore, I never doubted the legal character of the euthanasia decree —
1947-07-19, #15: Doctors' Trial (Viktor Brack's personal statement)
1947-07-19, #15: Doctors' Trial (Viktor…
1947-07-19, #15: Doctors' Trial (Viktor Brack's personal statement)
THE PRESIDENT: The defendant Brack. DR. BRACK: Your Honor, in 1929, I joined the NSDAP when more than six million German voters were already backing Hitler. His later successes during the years of peaceful reconstruction consolidated my conviction that he had forever liberated Germany from the misery in which it seemed to have fallen. For all those years, therefore, I had no reason to have any misgivings with regard to Hitler's personality and thus I also believed in the legality of the euthanasia decree as emanated directly from the head of the state. The state officials and doctors, competent for me at that time, told me that the euthanasia had always been an endeavor of mankind and was morally as well as medically justified. Therefore, I never doubted the legal character of the euthanasia decree —