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Karl Brandt

1904 - 1948

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Karl Brandt (8 January 1904 – 2 June 1948) was a German physician and Schutzstaffel (SS) officer in Nazi Germany. Trained in surgery, Brandt joined the Nazi Party in 1932 and became Adolf Hitler's escort doctor in August 1934. A member of Hitler's inner circle at the Berghof, he was selected by Philipp Bouhler, the head of Hitler's Chancellery, to administer the Aktion T4 euthanasia program. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Brandt has received more than 822,825 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Karl Brandt is the 60th most popular physician (down from 49th in 2019), the 576th most popular biography from France (down from 474th in 2019) and the 11th most popular French Physician.

Karl Brandt was a German physician and Nazi SS officer. He is most famous for being the head of the Nazi euthanasia program, which was responsible for killing over 70,000 disabled people.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Karl Brandt ranks 60 out of 726. Before him are René Laennec, Djer, Philippe Pinel, Gerhard Domagk, Emil Theodor Kocher, and Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. After him are Hans Asperger, William P. Murphy, Johannes Fibiger, Francesco Redi, Shirō Ishii, and Ferid Murad.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Karl Brandt ranks 18. Before him are Johnny Weissmuller, George Gamow, Alexei Kosygin, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Graham Greene, and Kurt Georg Kiesinger. After him are René Lacoste, Pavel Cherenkov, Hans Albert Einstein, Harry Martinson, Louis Néel, and Glenn Miller. Among people deceased in 1948, Karl Brandt ranks 15. Before him are Walther von Brauchitsch, Edgar de Wahl, Antonin Artaud, Folke Bernadotte, Andrei Zhdanov, and Nikolai Berdyaev. After him are Johannes Blaskowitz, Witold Pilecki, Babe Ruth, Jan Masaryk, Theodor Morell, and Ruth Benedict.

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In France

Among people born in France, Karl Brandt ranks 576 out of 6,770. Before him are Élisabeth of France (1764), Daniel Auber (1782), Alaric II (458), Johnny Hallyday (1943), Peter the Hermit (1050), and Paul Bocuse (1926). After him are Charles, Duke of Orléans (1394), Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748), Luigi Lucheni (1873), Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy (1383), Niki de Saint Phalle (1930), and Francis, Duke of Guise (1519).

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Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, Karl Brandt ranks 11. Before him are Alexis Carrel (1873), Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1845), Ambroise Paré (1510), Hilary of Poitiers (315), René Laennec (1781), and Philippe Pinel (1745). After him are Louis Auguste Blanqui (1805), Charles Nicolle (1866), Jean Nicot (1530), André Frédéric Cournand (1895), Marie François Xavier Bichat (1771), and Jean Marc Gaspard Itard (1774).

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