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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818005703321

Titolo

Deaf people in Hitler's Europe / / Donna F. Ryan and John S. Schuchman, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Gallaudet University Press, 2002

ISBN

1-56368-201-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xi, 233 p. : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

RyanDonna F

SchuchmanJohn S. <1938->

Disciplina

940.53/18/0872

Soggetti

Deaf people - Germany - History - 20th century

Deaf people - Government policy - Germany

Deaf people - Europe - History - 20th century

People with disabilities - Government policy - Germany

Eugenics - Germany - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Racial Hygiene -- Introduction -- Holocaust Studies and the Deaf Community -- Eugenics in Hitler's Germany -- Targeting the "Unfit" and Radical Public Health Strategies in Nazi Germany -- Part II: The German Experience -- Introduction -- Deaf People as Eyewitnesses of National Socialism -- Misjudged People: The German Deaf Community in 1932 -- The Place of the School for the Deaf in the New Reich -- Teacher-Collaborators -- Part III: The Jewish Deaf Experience -- Introduction -- Hungarian Deaf Jews and the Holocaust -- Deaf Survivors' Testimony: An Edited Transcript -- Part IV: Concluding Thoughts -- A Call for More Research -- Index.