Caring Corrupted: The Killing Nurses of the Third Reich(2017)

Caring Corrupted: The Killing Nurses of the Third Reich is a documentary that examines the nurses who exploited their medical authority to murder disabled, mentally ill and infirm patients under Nazi orders. Rather than passive bystanders, these healthcare workers actively participated in genocide, using their professional skills and access to vulnerable populations to carry out systematic killings. The film investigates how ordinary medical professionals became instruments of state-sanctioned murder during the Holocaust, exploring the institutional structures and ideological pressures that enabled such atrocities. Through archival evidence and historical analysis, it reveals a dark chapter of medical history in which the Hippocratic oath was perverted to serve Nazi racial ideology. Caring Corrupted challenges assumptions about complicity, responsibility and the moral obligations of those in positions of trust.