Editing Karl Brandt (section)

==Early life==
Brandt was born in [[Mulhouse]] in the then [[German Empire|German]] [[Alsace–Lorraine]] territory (now in [[Haut-Rhin]], [[France]]) into the family of a Prussian Army officer.<ref>Schmidt: Hitlers Arzt, Berlin 2009, {{ISBN|978-3-351-02671-4}}</ref> He became a medical doctor and surgeon in 1928, specializing in head and spinal injuries.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide |last=Lifton |first=Robert Jay |year=1986 |publisher=Basic Books |location=United States |isbn= 0-465-04905-2 |page=[https://archive.org/details/nazidoctorsmedic0000lift/page/114 114] |url=https://archive.org/details/nazidoctorsmedic0000lift |url-access=registration |quote=karl brandt surgeon. |access-date=2013-03-23}}</ref> He joined the [[Nazi Party]] in January 1932, and first met Hitler in the summer of 1932.{{sfn|Joachimsthaler|1999|p=296}} He became a member of the [[Sturmabteilung|SA]] in 1933 and a member of the [[SS]] on 29 July 1934; appointed the officer rank of ''[[Untersturmführer]]''.{{sfn|Joachimsthaler|1999|p=296}} From the summer of 1934 forward, he was Hitler's "escort physician". Karl Brandt married [[Anni Rehborn]], a champion swimmer, on 17 March 1934. They had one child, Karl Adolf Brandt (born 4 October 1935). Brandt was of the Protestant faith.<ref name="Schmidt 2007 p. ">{{cite book | last=Schmidt | first=U. | title=Karl Brandt: The Nazi Doctor: Medicine and Power in the Third Reich | publisher=Bloomsbury Academic | year=2007 | isbn=978-1-84725-031-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KbgrAAAAYAAJ | access-date=2022-10-11 | page=}}</ref>