Crying Hands: Eugenics And Deaf People in Nazi Germany - Couverture souple

Biesold, Horst

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1563682559 ISBN 13 : 9781563682551

Editeur : Gallaudet University Press,U.S., 2004

Synopsis

When the Nazis assumed power in Germany in 1933, they wasted no time in implementing their radical policies, first by securing passage of the Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases. Among those designated by this law as "congenitally disabled" were deaf people. Horst Biesold's newly translated book examines this neglected aspect of Nazi "racial hygiene" through interviews with more than 1,000 deaf survivors of this brutal law that authorized forced sterilizations, abortions, and eventually murder.

Crying Hands meticulously delineates the antecedents of Nazi eugenics, beginning with Social Darwinism (postulated in the mid-nineteenth century) and tracing the various sterilization laws later initiated throughout the world, including many passed and practiced in the United States. This exceptional scholarship is movingly paralleled by the human faces fixed to the numbing statistics, as in story after story those affected recount their irretrievable loss, pain, and misplaced shame imposed upon them by the Nazi regime. Through their stories, told to Biesold in German Sign Language, they have given voice to the countless others who died from the specious science practiced by the Third Reich. And now their own trials have finally been acknowledged.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Horst Biesold was a professor and teacher of deaf students in Bremen, Germany.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Gallaudet University Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1563682559
• ISBN 13: 9781563682551
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 236
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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