Crying Hands: Eugenics and Deaf People in Nazi Germany
Now available in paperback; ISBN 1-56368-255-9
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\ \ \ Publisher's Introduction\ \ \ \ \ Preface to the German Edition\ \ \ \ \ Acknowledgments\ \ \ \ \ Introduction\ 1\ \ \ 1\ From Social Darwinism to National Socialism\ 13\ \ \ 2\ The Concept of Hereditary Deafness under National Socialism\ 28\ \ \ 3\ Teacher-Collaborators\ 42\ \ \ 4\ Forced Abortions\ 84\ \ \ 5\ Deaf Collaboration: REGEDE\ 91\ \ \ 6\ Deaf Resistance\ 109\ \ \ 7\ The Jewish Deaf in Germany\ 130\ \ \ 8\ Sterilization's Legacy\ 140\ \ \ 9\ Euthanasia and Deaf Germans\ 160\ \ \ \ App. 1: The Questionnaire\ 171\ \ \ \ App. 2: Questionnaire Data\ 175\ \ \ App. 3\ Documents Written by and in Support of Gertrud Jacob\ 184\ \ \ \ Notes\ 189\ \ \ \ Author's Bibliography\ 211\ \ \ \ Selected Bibliography in English\ 219\ \ \ \ Index\ 223\ \
\ BooknewsExposes 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 , 1988, by Jarick Oberbiel, Germany. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
