Max de Crinis
Max de Crinis | |
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| Born | Maximinus Friedrich Alexander de Crinis 29 May 1889 |
| Died | 2 May 1945 (aged 55) |
| Cause of death | Suicide by cyanide poisoning |
Professor Maximinus Friedrich Alexander de Crinis (29 May 1889 – 2 May 1945) held a chair in
Action T4 Euthanasia Program who wrote the Euthanasia Decree, signed by Adolf Hitler
on 20 September 1939.
Crinis was born in
University of Leipzig.[1]
According to Heinz Guderian, Dr De Crinis was the first doctor to correctly diagnose Hitler's malady as being Parkinson's disease.[2] The diagnosis made in early 1945 was kept secret. On 1 May 1945, after killing his family with potassium cyanide, de Crinis committed suicide in Stahnsdorf near Berlin, by taking a cyanide tablet himself.
References
- ^ PMID 20889455.
- ISBN 0-306-81101-4.
Further reading
- Photograph at Axis History Forum
- ISBN 0-9648909-1-7
- Geoffrey Cocks: Psychotherapy in the Third Reich: The Göring Institute (2nd ed), Oxford University Press, New York, 1985 (ISBN 0195034619)
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