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Crying Hands: Eugenics and Deaf People in Nazi Germany by Horst Biesold β€” book cover

Crying Hands: Eugenics and Deaf People in Nazi Germany

by Horst Biesold
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Now available in paperback; ISBN 1-56368-255-9

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Exposes the active collusion with the Nazis of various physicians, administrators, and teachers of the deaf who embraced the Third Reich's eugenics policies. Documents the collusion of deaf leaders, who tried to incorporate all independent deaf groups into one Nazi organization while expelling deaf Jews, and traces resistance against the Third Reich by deaf Germans. Includes personal accounts of some of the 1,215 deaf victims of enforced sterilization, demonstrating the lasting physical and emotional pain of Nazi violations. The author is a retired professor and teacher of deaf students. Originally published as nde/>, 1988, by Jarick Oberbiel, Germany. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Book Details

Published
March 1, 2005
Publisher
Gallaudet University Press
Pages
256
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781563682551

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