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A definition or brief description of Werner Heyde.

(1902-1964) Psychiatrist and SS-Standartenfuehrer who headed the euthanasia program from 1939 to 1942, and directed psychiatrists who studied camp prisoners; not indicted but testified in the Medical Case (NMT); later assumed a false identity; arrested in 1962 and committed suicide before trial