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Charles 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.
Format: HardbackCONTRIBUTORS: Alan R. RushtonEAN: 9781527513402COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 0 gHEIGHT: 212 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Cambridge Scholars PublishingDATE PUBLISHED: 2018-07-25CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / ArchaeologyWIDTH: 148 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Far-right political ideologies and movements, War crimes, History and Archaeology
“This is a valuable, but disturbing, book, which shows how easily individuals and institutions can be corrupted into collusion with the most dire crimes against humanity. Most readers will be unaware of the horrific involvement of the German Red Cross in the Nazi programmes for systematically eliminating disabled children and adults, and of the central role in the crimes of its Director, Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg, a British-born member of the UK royal family. Fewer still will know of the deliberate silence of the International Red Cross organisation regarding these crimes, or of the persistent denial and cover up of any connection with them by the British government and royal family, extending to the present day. While these events may be in the past, the issues involved are as relevant today as they ever were, especially for scientists and medical workers. We should all be grateful to Rushton for documenting and exposing this shameful chapter of events.”Sir Peter S. Harper, MDUniversity Research Professor (Emeritus) in Human Genetics, Cardiff University
Alan R. Rushton, MD, PhD, practiced Pediatrics and Medical Genetics at Hunterdon Medical Center in Flemington, New Jersey, from 1980 until 2017, and served on the faculty of Princeton University and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He was elected Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and the Royal Society of Medicine. He has authored articles for The Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and The British Journal for the History of Science. His publications also include the books Genetics and Medicine in the United States, 1800 to 1922; Royal Maladies: Hereditary Diseases in the Ruling Houses of Europe; Genetics and Medicine in Great Britain 1600 to 1939; and Talking Back against the Nazi Scheme to Kill the Handicapped Citizens of Germany 1933-1945.
Charles 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.
Format: HardbackCONTRIBUTORS: Alan R. RushtonEAN: 9781527513402COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 0 gHEIGHT: 212 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Cambridge Scholars PublishingDATE PUBLISHED: 2018-07-25CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / ArchaeologyWIDTH: 148 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Far-right political ideologies and movements, War crimes, History and Archaeology
Alan R. Rushton, MD, PhD, practiced Pediatrics and Medical Genetics at Hunterdon Medical Center in Flemington, New Jersey, from 1980 until 2017, and served on the faculty of Princeton University and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He was elected Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and the Royal Society of Medicine. He has authored articles for The Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and The British Journal for the History of Science. His publications also include the books Genetics and Medicine in the United States, 1800 to 1922; Royal Maladies: Hereditary Diseases in the Ruling Houses of Europe; Genetics and Medicine in Great Britain 1600 to 1939; and Talking Back against the Nazi Scheme to Kill the Handicapped Citizens of Germany 1933-1945.
Die verhaal van die kasarm en die Calitze kom tot 'n mooi einde
Ek kan nie ’n boek summier toemaak nadat die slotsin geskryf is nie. Ek lees álles, tot by die outeursnotas en die bronnelys (gewoonlik gooi ek darem net vlugtig ’n oog oor die bonne!). Chanette Paul maak in die nota oor Maanschijnbaai 2, die verdere verhaal van Nan en Jeannie, die stelling: “Lesers moet my asseblief vergewe dat my verbeelding altyd die oorhand oor die werklikheid kry en verdigsel voorkeur bo feite.” (p.635) Ek wil daarby aanhaak en bieg dat ’n uitstekende verhoudingsroman soos hierdie tydelik die oorhand gekry het oor my traagheid om te lees oor reïnkarnasie en die esoteriese. Die klomp Calitzse het my tyd en aandag totaal gekaap.
Die skrywer wy die laaste bladsye aan ’n verduideliking oor hoe die Maanschijnbaai-tweeluik ontstaan het. Sy beweer dat die Calitze haar “onkant” betrap het. Sy wou ’n romanse skryf maar uiteindelik was die karakters so kompleks dat dit op twee dik boeke en ’n intense familiedrama uitgeloop het.
Van die onderskeie karakters raak diep waarhede kwyt wat die moeite werd is om te onderstreep en te onthou, soos Zach wat dit gehad het oor die risiko om iemand op ’n pedestal te plaas omdat jy daardeur die persoon ’n onreg aandoen. (p.539) En Nan, wat die hele klomp Calitze moes grootkry, se wyse raad: “Met eerlikheid, Jeannie, kom ’n mens baie verder as met opoffering. Met eerlikheid gee jy almal ’n regverdige kans. Opoffering beteken bloot jy doen iets teen jou sin omdat jy glo dit sal ander baat.” (p.613)
Maak seker dat jy genoeg tyd op hande het, dan lees jy hierdie tweeluik in volgorde, Jo & Sue, gevolg deur Nan & Jeannie. Dit is hersien en met splinternuwe, pragtige baadjies uitgegee deur Lapa Uitgewers.
A very practical approach and the tools to go along with it
Very useful. The book provides a structure and an approach that I would have been useful earlier in my investing. I like the five gates and in particular the attention to quality and management's capital allocation decisions. I will also apply the idea of the stewardship log to get more explicit on my investment theses. This is kind of the practical aspect of what I learned from the Psychology of Money.
the title ties in really nicley the more towards the end but the title for the book suits it real...
the book is very slow burn and takes a while for like captivating parts of the book .but the middle to the end the pace of the book is really nice the beginning is just repetitive and and trust the processes
Skuld en vergifnis word nie versuiker in hierdie jeugverhaal nie
Twee halwes maak ’n hele is die wenner van ’n jeugboekprys. Ek moes myself gedurig herinner wat die teikenmark nou eintlik is, want die sake wat aangeraak word, is geensins beperk tot jeugdige lesers nie. Die sterk newe-karakters dra daartoe by die selfs baie ouer lesers goed aanklank kan vind by die storielyn wat ontvou.
“Hulle sê as jy iemand vergewe, lig jy ’n vrag van daardie persoon se skouers af. Maar miskien is sommige dinge net te swaar om van iemand anders se skouers te lig?” (p.178) Baie aandag word gegee aan skuld en vergifnis, maar geen suikeromhulde kitsoplossings word aangebied nie. Dit sou die storie beslis vervlak het.
Na die aardskuddende ontdekking wat Lira gemaak het, gaan sy vir drie maande na ’n Griekse eiland en maak sy kennis met haar ander helfte, ’n halfsuster wat presies die teenoorgestelde is van haar eie ingetoë, overthinking self. Ek het daarvan gehou dat hulle, die verskille ten spyt, nie in heftige konflik was nie. Eerder besig om algaande te ontdek dat hulle by mekaar kan aanpas en albei sterker daardeur kan kom.
Marita van der Vyver is ’n waardige wenner van die Tafelberg Jeugboekprys en hierdie boek hoort beslis in van der Vyver versamelings. Dit is uitgegee deur Tafelberg, ’n druknaam van Jonathan Ball Uitgewers.
