1929

Formation in Germany of Nationalist Socialist German Physicians League, “a step toward the unification of state and medical goals, and built upon the singular centralized organization of the eugenics movement that Ploetz had started . . . . By 1942, half of the doctors in Germany had joined the Nazi Party” (Rutherford, 117; Hansen & King, 143). After 1933, “surprisingly only a few of the prestigious and influential chairs in psychiatry changed occupants” (Friedlander, ch 1).