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

By: Herzog, Dagmar

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"