The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany's Twentieth Century

By: Herzog, Dagmar

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The dark history of eugenic thought in Germany from the nineteenth century to today--and the courageous countervoices

Between 1939 and 1945, Nazi genocide claimed the lives of nearly three hundred thousand people diagnosed with psychiatric illness or cognitive deficiencies. Not until the 1980s would these murders, as well as the coercive sterilizations of some four hundred thousand others classified as "feeble-minded," be officially...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0691261709

ISBN13:9780691261706

Release Date:October 2024

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:312 Pages

Weight:1.55 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 6.0" x 9.3"

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History Political Science Politics & Social Sciences

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