Aktion Brandt (Operation Brandt) is an umbrella term for the decentralized murders of sick people in sanatoriums in Nazi Germany.[1]:123,135 In some institutions, sick people were deliberately subjected to overcrowding, neglect, and malnutrition; in other institutions, the transferred inmates were murdered on a large scale. The action, named after Hitler's doctor and general commissioner for medical and health services Karl Brandt, partially succeeded Aktion T4.

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  1. Süß, Winfried (2007). "Dezentralisierter Krankenmord. Zum Verhältnis von Zentralgewalt und Regionalgewalten in der "Euthanasie" seit 1942". Die NS-Gaue. pp. 123–135. doi:10.1515/9783110591064-008. ISBN 9783110591064.
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