Editing Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt (section)

==Later life==
Creutzfeldt was 54 years old when the [[Second World War]] broke out. He was unmoved by the [[Nazi regime]] and was able to save some people from death in [[Extermination camp|concentration camp]]s and also managed to save almost all of his patients from being murdered under the Nazi ''[[Aktion T4]]'' [[involuntary euthanasia]] program, while most mental patients identified by T4 personnel were gassed or poisoned at separate [[euthanasia]] clinics such as [[Hadamar Euthanasia Centre]]. During the war, bombing raids destroyed his home and clinic.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt |url=http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/91.html |access-date=2023-11-16 |website=www.whonamedit.com}}</ref>

After the war he was director of the [[University of Kiel]] for six months, before being dismissed by the British occupation forces. His efforts to rebuild the university caused a series of conflicts with the British because he wanted to allow more former army officers to study there. Creutzfeldt resigned from his work at Kiel in 1953 in order to pursue life as professor emeritus in [[Munich]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Wolf|first1=J. H.|last2=Foley|first2=P.|date=2005|title=Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt (1885-1964): A Life in Neuropathology|journal=Journal of Neural Transmission|location=Austria|publisher=Springer-Verlag|volume=112|issue=8|pages=I-XCVII|doi=10.1007/s00702-005-0288-2|pmid=15834786|s2cid=25705032|issn=0300-9564|eissn=1435-1463|via=Academic Search Complete}}</ref>