Crying hands : eugenics and deaf people in Nazi Germany / Horst Biesold ; translation by William Sayers ; introduction by Henry Friedlander.

  • Biesold, Horst, 1939-
Date:
1999
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About this work

Also known as

Klagende Hände. English

Publication/Creation

Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, 1999.

Physical description

xix, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes index and bibliography: p. 211-222.

Contents

From Social Darwinism to National Socialism -- The concept of hereditary deafness under National Socialism -- Teacher-collaborators -- Forced abortions -- Deaf collaboration: REGEDE -- Deaf resistance -- The Jewish deaf in Germany -- Sterilizations's legacy -- Euthanasia and deaf Germans.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    JL.37.AA9
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ISBN

  • 1563680777