Changing perspectives: from "Euthanasia killings" to the "Killing of sick persons"

Two hunded thousand psychiatric patients were killed during the Nazi regime. Events around the killings are complex and interwoven with other events. Some authors have blamed the role of nurses on a combination of factors; their working conditions, the fascist system, their powerlessness, and their moral fallibility due to lack of ethical guidelines. This chapter develops a framework that enables a new perspective on the killings of sick persons and the important role nurses played in these murders