Article ID: CBB341702782

The ‘Poitrot Report’, 1945: the first public document on Nazi euthanasia (2019)

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The aim of this paper is to shed light on the so-called ‘Poitrot Report’, submitted to the French Military Government in Baden-Baden, Germany, in December 1945 and published in a reduced German version in 1946. Its author was the French-Moroccan psychiatrist Robert Poitrot, who had been put in charge of the public mental asylums in Südwürttemberg after World War II. Poitrot took responsibility for restoring psychiatric care during the occupation, and was also eager to document Nazi ‘euthanasia’ and to start investigating the role of staff in mental hospitals during National Socialism. Focusing on the ‘Poitrot Report’, this paper also reflects on life in Württemberg mental hospitals and the interaction between French representatives such as Poitrot and regional German medical staff.

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Authors & Contributors
Gazdag, Gábor
Ungvari, Gabor Sandor
Zeidman, Lawrence A.
Rotzoll, Maike
Czech, Herwig
Benedict, Susan
Journals
Medizinhistorisches Journal
History of Psychiatry
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
History of Psychology
Health and History
Gesnerus
Publishers
Routledge
European Association of Urology
Wallstein Verlag
W. W. Norton & Co.
V&R Unipress
Oxford University Press
Concepts
Psychiatry
World War II
Medicine and ethics
Nazism
Psychiatric hospitals
Euthanasia
People
Ewald, Gottfried
Asperger, Hans
Schneider, Carl
Saethre, Haakon
Rüdin, Ernst
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
Places
Germany
Italy
Württemberg (Germany)
England
United States
Norway
Institutions
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften
Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft
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