The Sanity Inspectors by Friedrich Deich
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.
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781913861872 |
| ISBN 10 | 1913861872 |
| Title | The Sanity Inspectors |
| Author | Friedrich Deich |
| Series | Recovered Books |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | UEA Publishing Project |
| Year published | 2023-05-31 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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