Mentally and Physically Disabled Persons as Victims of Nazism

doi:10.1017/9781108900447.026

23 - Mentally and Physically Disabled Persons as Victims of Nazism

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2025

Paul Weindling

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Marion Kaplan and

Natalia Aleksiun

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Marion Kaplan: Affiliation:
New York University
Natalia Aleksiun: Affiliation:
University of Florida

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This chapter covers coerced sterilization, killings of patients, and forced research in Germany and territories under German occupation. It details the various medical establishments and killing centers as well as the methods by which patients were murdered, as well as complicit medical personnel.

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Compulsory sterilization mixed-race children homosexuals castration psychiatric patients child killing victim naming victim memorials

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Information: The Cambridge History of the Holocaust , pp. 382 - 398

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108900447.026 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2025

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