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Crying Hands

Horst Biesold

1999208 pagesabout 3–5 hours
1999
first published
  • 1999Gallaudet University Press · ENGISBN 9780585105925
  • 2014Gallaudet University Press · ENGISBN 9781563681967
  • 1999Gallaudet University Press · 208 pages · ENGISBN 9781563680779
  • 2004Gallaudet University Press · 208 pages · ENGISBN 9781563682551

"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.

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