Deaf People in Hitler’s Europe 1st Edition by Donna Ryan, John Schuchman 9781563681325 1563681323

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ISBN 10: 1563681323

ISBN 13: 9781563681325

Author: Donna F. Ryan, John S. Schuchman

Inspired by the conference “Deaf People in Hitler’s Europe, 1933–1945,” hosted jointly by Gallaudet University and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1998, this extraordinary collection, organized into three parts, integrates key presentations and important postconference research. Henry Friedlander begins “Part I: Racial Hygiene” by analyzing the assault on deaf people and people with disabilities as an integral element in the Nazi attempt to implement their theories of racial hygiene. Robert Proctor documents the role of medical professionals in deciding who should be sterilized or forbidden to marry, and whom the Nazi authorities would murder. In an essay written especially for this volume, Patricia Heberer details how Nazi manipulation of eugenics theory and practice facilitated the justification for the murder of those considered socially undesirable. “Part II: The German Experience” commences with Jochen Muhs’s interviews of deaf Berliners who lived under Nazi rule, both those who suffered abuse and those who, as members of the Nazi Party, persecuted others, especially deaf Jews. John S. Schuchman describes the remarkable 1932 film Misjudged People, which so successfully portrayed the German deaf community as a vibrant contributor to society that the Nazis banned its showing when they came to power. Horst Biesold’s contribution confirms the complicity of teachers who denounced their own students, labeling them hereditarily deaf and thus exposing them to compulsory sterilization. The section also includes the reprint of a chilling 1934 article entitled “The Place of the School for the Deaf in the New Reich,” in which author Kurt Lietz rued the expense of educating deaf students, who could not become soldiers or bear “healthy children.” In “Part III: The Jewish Deaf Experience,” John S. Schuchman discusses the plight of deaf Jews in Hungary. His historical analysis is complemented by a chapter containing excerpts from the testimony of six deaf Jewish survivors who describe their personal ordeals. Peter Black’s reflections on the need for more research conclude this vital study of a little-known chapter of the Holocaust.

Table of contents:

Part I: Racial Hygiene
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Holocaust Studies and the Deaf Community
Chapter 3: Eugenics in Hitler’s Germany
Chapter 4: Targeting the “Unfit” and Radical Public Health Strategies in Nazi Germany

Part II: The German Experience
Chapter 5: Introduction
Chapter 6: Deaf People as Eyewitnesses of National Socialism
Chapter 7: Misjudged People: The German Deaf Community in 1932
Chapter 8: The Place of the School for the Deaf in the New Reich
Chapter 9: Teacher-Collaborators

Part III: The Jewish Deaf Experience
Chapter 10: Introduction
Chapter 11: Hungarian Deaf Jews and the Holocaust
Chapter 12: Deaf Survivors’ Testimony: An Edited Transcript

Part IV: Concluding Thoughts
Chapter 13: A Call for More Research

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