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gleichschaltung, or the complete ideological packaging of political, social and lived experience.
So while, on the one hand, mores of social behaviour, including sterilisation, were forcibly prescribed â by the end of Third Reich in 1945 an estimated 360,000 had been sterilised, among whom were those deemed genetically inferior or regarded as âpolitical enemies of the stateâ â on the other, there was a concerted purging of unwanted ideas, as reflected in censorship protocols and even the mass book burnings that took place shortly after the Nazis came to power in May 1933, and which was reported by the newspapers of the day as âaction against the un-German spiritâ.Â
Inquest on Claudine Chart, 38, of Sandwich who died five days after bowel cancer treatment
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Updated: 16:14, 08 March 2021
A woman died five days after she began treatment for cancer after a toxic reaction to medication.
Claudine Chart, 38, was found dead at her home in Sandown Road, Sandwich, an inquest heard today.
Claudine Chart. Picture courtesy of Laura Collins on GoFundMe
Pathologist Dr Nipin Bagla told the hearing that Ms Chart had died from fluorouracil toxicity.
Fluorouracil is a chemotherapy medication and Ms Chart had been diagnosed with bowel cancer.
Dr Bagla said he believed the death had been sudden but this type was uncommon.