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Title Crying hands [electronic resource] : eugenics and deaf people in Nazi Germany / Horst Biesold ; translation by William Sayers ; introduction by Henry Friedlander.
Published Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, 1999.

Description xix, 230 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Preferred Title Klagende Hände. English
Contents From Social Darwinism to National Socialism -- The concept of hereditary deafness under National Socialism -- Teacher-collaborators -- Forced abortions -- Deaf collaboration: REGEDE -- Deaf resistance -- The Jewish deaf in Germany -- Sterilizations's legacy -- Euthanasia and deaf Germans.
Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-222) and index.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2000. Available via the World Wide Web. Available in multiple electronic file formats. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries.
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Subject Deaf -- Government policy -- Germany.
Deafness.
Medicine -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Eugenics -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Social Darwinism -- Germany.
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