Crying Hands
Subtitle: Eugenics and Deaf People in Nazi Germany
Contributors: Henry Friedlander (Introduction)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
Published: July 27, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781563680779
Subjects: Disability: social aspects; Second World War, 1939-1945; Europe - Germany; Audiology; Germany - History - Third Reich (1933-1945); History: World; History; History - General History; Handicapped; Germany; Holocaust; Audiology & Speech Pathology; Medicine; 20th century; Deaf; Deafness; Government policy
Description: "When the Nazis assumed power in Germany in 1933, they wasted no time in implementing their radical racial 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."--BOOK JACKET.