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Karl Brandt

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The Resume

    (January 8, 1904-June 2, 1948)
    Born in Mulhouse, France
    Adolf Hitler's personal physician
    Major-general in the Waffen-SS
    Appointed Reich Commissioner for Health and Sanitation (1942)
    Executed for war crimes

Why he might be annoying:

    He ran the T-4 euthanasia program that killed 200,000 physically and mentally handicapped 'useless eaters.'
    During WWII, the euthanasia program expanded to include exterminating 'biologically inferior' people, including Jews, Gypsies, Poles and Russians.
    He sent several aides to help set up the gas chambers in death camps.
    He approved medical 'experiments' on concentration camp inmates by Josef Mengele, Aribert Heim and their ilk.
    His excuse for his actions was 'Any personal code of ethics must give way to the total character of the war.'
    On the gallows, he whined about being a victim.

Why he might not be annoying:

    In the last days of the Third Reich, he sent his wife and children out of Berlin so they could surrender to the Americans.
    As a result, he was charged with treason by Hitler, found guilty and sentenced to death.
    Heinrich Himmler and Albert Speer intervened to prevent his execution. (Although it proved to be a temporary reprieve.)
    Before his execution, he wrote to the authorities offering, 'I am of my free will willing to submit myself to a medical experiment offering no chance of survival.'

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 364 Votes: 69.23% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 1790 Votes: 67.04% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 106 Votes: 52.83% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 155 Votes: 50.97% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 75 Votes: 56.00% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 10 Votes: 30.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 15 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 9 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 28 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 78 Votes: 51.28% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 89 Votes: 58.43% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 223 Votes: 79.82% Annoying