Crying Hands, Eugenics and Deaf People in Nazi Germany by Horst Biesold & Henry Friedlander

Author:Horst Biesold & Henry Friedlander [Biesold, Horst & Friedlander, Henry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: test
Published: 2007-12-28T08:00:00+00:00

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strategy of the Nazi education policy to bring denominational schools under the control of the political apparatus.

Hermann Sommer

The turmoil and anxiety that entered the homes of deaf Germans with the enactment of the hereditary health law gripped the seven members of the family of deaf cabinetmaker Hermann Sommer of Kiel. The Kiel medical health center for hereditary and race welfare, in a letter of October 12, 1939, requested that the university audiology clinic in Kiel "examine cabinetmaker Hermann Sommer." The city medical officer appended a handwritten note: "As discussed by telephone, I am sending S. again with the request that his case be dealt with, if at all possible." 9 On February 24, 1940, the university ear, nose, and throat clinic of Kiel delivered its opinion that Sommer was hereditarily diseased, and on April 8, 1940, the Hereditary Health Court in Kiel ordered the personal appearance of Hermann Sommer at 10:30 A.M. on April 18, 1940, in Chamber 106 of the Justice Building at Schützenwall 31/35 in Kiel, "in the matter of his hereditary health case." 10 During the proceedings, a decision was made that Sommer must be sterilized.

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