What is truth in a world filled with lies? What is sanity when everyone in charge seems mad? How can good people survive in a system where everyone is compromised and corrupted? These are the questions Friedrich Deich examines in The Sanity Inspectors, his novel about a German psychiatrist struggling to stay faithful to his Hippocratic oath (-First, do no harm-) when the Nazi regime has begun its campaign to rid its population of the -undesirables-: Jews, the insane, the feeble and mentally handicapped. Doctor Vossmenge, Deich-s protagonist, is eventually forced to join the Luftwaffe as a medical officer. There, he attempts to subvert the system from within by releasing reluctant airmen from service through bogus diagnoses. His scheme, however, ultimately leads to his arrest and a death sentence. Vossmenge-s crisis of conscience is illuminated by a running correspondence with a Lutheran pastor who tries to alert him to the moral consequences of his choices. The Sanity Insp
