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X-WR-CALNAME:Disability and Eugenics in Germany's Twentieth-Century–Dagma
 r Herzog
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DESCRIPTION:As part of the Humanities Center’s Fall 2025 speaker series o
 n New Histories of Fascism\, Nazi Germany\, and the Holocaust\, Dagmar Her
 zog (CUNY Graduate Center)\, a renowned historian of fascism\, sexuality\,
  disability\, and modern Germany\, will present her new book\, The Questio
 n of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s Twentieth Century (Princeton 
 University Press\, 2024).\n\nBetween 1939 and 1945\, Nazi Germany murdered
  nearly three hundred thousand people diagnosed with psychiatric illness o
 r cognitive deficiencies. Not until the 1980s would these murders\, as wel
 l as the coercive sterilizations of some four hundred thousand others clas
 sified as “feeble-minded\,” be officially acknowledged as crimes at al
 l. The Question of Unworthy Life charts this history from its origins in p
 rewar debates about the value of disabled lives to our continuing efforts 
 to unlearn eugenic thinking today.\n\nDrawing on a wealth of archival evid
 ence\, Dagmar Herzog sheds light on how Germany became the only modern sta
 te to implement a plan to eradicate cognitive impairment from the entire b
 ody politic. She traces how eugenics emerged from the flawed premise that 
 intellectual deficiency was biologically hereditary\, and how this crude e
 xplanatory framework diverted attention from the actual economic and clini
 cal causes of disability. Herzog describes how the vilification of the dis
 abled was dressed up as the latest science and reveals how Christian leade
 rs and prominent educators were complicit in amplifying and legitimizing N
 azi policies.\n\nThe Question of Unworthy Life also recovers the stories o
 f the unsung advocates for disability rights who challenged the aggressive
  victimization of the disabled and developed alternative approaches to cog
 nitive impairment based on ideals of equality\, mutuality\, and human poss
 ibility.\n\nThis lecture is free and open to the public.
GEO:43.128411;-77.628692
LOCATION:Rush Rhees Library\, Humanities Center Room D
SUMMARY:Disability and Eugenics in Germany's Twentieth-Century–Dagmar Her
 zog
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 -germanys-twentieth-century
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Talks
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