delirium clemens

Andreas Nowak’s award-winning documentary A Perfectly Normal Doctor (2000) exposes the systematic practice of euthanasia – so-called “assisted death” – of disabled babies and children that took place during the Nazi period. While there were undoubtedly many physicians and nurses involved in such crimes throughout the Third Reich, this film focuses on Austrian Nazi doctor and later forensic psychiatrist Heinrich Gross who was in charge of a the children’s ward at the Viennese mental institution where 800 children were killed.