Forest Books: Donna E. Ryan & John S. Schuchman Deaf People In Hitler's Europe

This book grew out of the 1998 conference of the same name at Gallaudet University. It is an extraordinary and shocking collection that shows that the attack upon deaf people and people with disabilities was an integral part of the Nazi theory of "racial hygiene". The role of the medical profession in deciding who should be sterilised, forbidden to marry, or murdered, is documented and so too is how the Nazi's Eugenics theories allowed them to extend their lethal policies to those considered socially undesirable. Paperback 232 pages November 2002