# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-brandt
# Generated: 2026-08-31T13:54:56.667Z

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name: "Karl Brandt"
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description: "Hitler's personal physician who ran the T4 program — the Nazi euthanasia apparatus that killed tens of thousands of disabled people before the gas chambers. The attention comes from standing at the hinge where medicine became method."
tagline: "German Nazi SS officer and physician, executed for war crimes and crimes against humanity (1904–1948)"
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birthDate: "1904-01-08"
deathDate: "1948-06-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born 8 January 1904, Brandt trained as a surgeon and joined the Nazi Party in 1932. By August 1934 he was Hitler's escort doctor, part of the inner circle at the Berghof. In that role Philipp Bouhler selected him to administer Aktion T4, the euthanasia program that systematically murdered disabled patients. He later became Reich Commissioner of Health and Emergency Services. Indicted in late 1946, he stood trial with 22 others in the Doctors' Trial before a U.S. military tribunal, accused of human experimentation and war crimes. Found guilty, he was sentenced to death and executed on 2 June 1948.