Nazi physician Karl Brandt, director of the Euthanasia Program. August 27, 1942.
![Nazi physician Karl Brandt, director of the Euthanasia Program. [LCID: 09539]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/e6f0f37e-600f-47fd-b72a-7f58871a5698.jpg)
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