Name: Crying Hands: Eugenics and Deaf People in Nazi Germany
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Author: Biesold, Horst ; Friedlander, Henry
ISBN: 9781563682551

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Crying Hands: Eugenics and Deaf People in Nazi Germany

Type

Physical Book

Author

Horst Biesold

Introduction by

Henry Friedlander

Publisher

Gallaudet University Press

Year

2004

Language

English

Pages

208

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.8 x 15.8 x 1.4 cm

Weight

0.37 kg.

ISBN

1563682559

ISBN13

9781563682551

Edition No.

Synopsis "Crying Hands: Eugenics and Deaf People in Nazi Germany"

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.

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