The five‑month‑old exam that let a doctor sign away a life
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The five‑month‑old exam that let a doctor sign away a life
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The five‑month‑old exam that let a doctor sign away a life
In this episode, we tell the recorded sequence: who Karl Brandt was, the July 25, 1939 exam of infant Gerhard Kretschmar, and how that authorization connected to larger policies in Nazi Germany. How did one physician’s decision become the template for a program of “mercy death”?
Person: Karl Brandt
Person: Gerhard Kretschmar
Date: July 25, 1939
Event: Authorization of infant killing; later linked to Aktion T4
Location: Leipzig
- Brandt trained as a surgeon, earned his medical degree in 1928, and specialized in head and spine surgery.
- He joined the Nazi Party in January 1932, the SA in 1933, and the SS in July 1934, becoming Hitler’s escort physician.
- On July 25, 1939 Brandt examined five‑month‑old Gerhard Kretschmar and signed permission for the child’s killing.
- Six weeks after that exam, on September 1, 1939, Brandt was appointed co‑head of Aktion T4 alongside Philipp Bouhler.
- The language and ideas Brandt had absorbed-like Alfred Hoche’s framing of “ballast existences”-informed the program called Gnadentod (merciful death).
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