Walter Creutz und die „Euthanasie“ in der Rheinprovinz

Over many decades Walter Creutz, medical officer in the provincial administration of Rhine Province from 1935 to 1945, was held to be one of the few psychiatrists who had actively opposed the Nazi null program. In the famous Euthanasia trial in Dusseldorf from 1948 to 1950, Creutz was acquitted of complicity in murder; the court attested that he had done his best to sabotage the null program and in so doing had saved up to 3,000 patients in the...