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

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2019-09
Authors
Müller, Thomas
Reichelt, Bernd
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Published in
History of Psychiatry ; 30 (2019), 3. - S. 314-324. - ISSN 0957-154X. - eISSN 1740-2360
Link to original publication
https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957154X19842017
Institutions
Oberschwaben Klinik GmbH Ravensburg St. Elisabethen-Krankenhaus
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Abstract
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. © In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Subject headings
[GND]: Euthanasie (Nationalsozialismus) | Deutschland (Französische Zone) | Nationalsozialismus
[LCSH]: Euthanasia | National socialism
[Free subject headings]: French occupation | French psychiatry | transnational knowledge transfer
[DDC subject group]: DDC 150 / Psychology | DDC 900 / History
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Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich
 
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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://dx.doi.org/10.18725/OPARU-40047

Müller, Thomas; Reichelt, Bernd (2021): The ‘Poitrot Report’, 1945: the first public document on Nazi euthanasia. Open Access Repositorium der Universität Ulm und Technischen Hochschule Ulm. http://dx.doi.org/10.18725/OPARU-40047
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