The Sanity Inspectors - Couverture souple

Deich, Friedrich

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1913861872 ISBN 13 : 9781913861872

Editeur : UEA Publishing Project, 2023

Synopsis

What is truth in a world filled with lies? What is sanity when everyone in charge seems mad? How can good people survive in a system where everyone is compromised and corrupted? These are the questions Friedrich Deich examines in The Sanity Inspectors, his novel about a German psychiatrist struggling to stay faithful to his Hippocratic oath (‘First, do no harm’) when the Nazi regime has begun its campaign to rid its population of the ‘undesirables’: Jews, the insane, the feeble and mentally handicapped. Doctor Vossmenge, Deich’s protagonist, is eventually forced to join the Luftwaffe as a medical officer. There, he attempts to subvert the system from within by releasing reluctant airmen from service through bogus diagnoses. His scheme, however, ultimately leads to his arrest and a death sentence. Vossmenge’s crisis of conscience is illuminated by a running correspondence with a Lutheran pastor who tries to alert him to the moral consequences of his choices. The Sanity Inspectors continues the mission of Recovered Books series to rescue exceptional books long unavailable to today’s readers.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Friedrich Deich was the pseudonym of Dr Friedrich Weeren, who was born in 1907 and studied medicine at the Universities of Bonn, Freiburg and Munich. He trained as a psychiatrist but in 1938, he left Germany to become a researcher in Africa. He served as a doctor in the Luftwaffe during the Second World War and afterward became an influential medical journalist in Germany. The Sanity Inspectors was his first novel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: UEA Publishing Project
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1913861872
• ISBN 13: 9781913861872
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
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• Personne responsable: non disponible