Crying Hands: Eugenics and Deaf People in Nazi Germany

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments THIS STUDY was accepted in 1986 by the University of Bremen as a dissertation qualifying the author for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Special thanks are due to the examiners , Professor Dr. Wilfried Wagner, Department of History, and Professor Dr. Wolfgang Jantzen, Department of Education of the Disabled. A further word of thanks must be expressed in the name of the deaf victims of the Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases. This gratitude is directed to all true humanitarians in all political parties in the Federal Republic of Germany who, since the foundation of this state, have fought fiercely for the rehabilitation of the disenfranchised, and to those who provided the author with material support for the necessary research, through a grant from the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The author also wishes to thank the following institutions, professional organizations, associations, and individuals, for their help and support for this research. Chaim Apter, World Organization of Jewish Deaf, Tel Aviv, Israel Archivum Panstwowe, Wroclaw, Poland David Ludwig Bloch, New York Central State Archives (Zentrales Staatsarkiv) of the former German Democratic Republic, Potsdam Enzio Cramon and Francine Gaudray, producers of “Seeing Instead of Hearing” (“Sehen statt Hören”), Bavarian Television Federal Association of Teachers and Social Workers for the xvii Hearing-Impaired, (Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft der Sozialp ädagogen und Sozialarbeiter für Hörgeschädigte), Münster Federal Mininster of the Interior (Bundesminister des Inneren), Bonn Dr. Herbert Feuchte, Hamburg Hannelore Feuss, Bureau of Parliamentary Representatives (Büro der Bundestagsabgeordneten), Bonn Frau Fiedler, Association for the Advancement of the Deaf (Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Gehörlosen), Berlin Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C. Erich Gerber, Berlin German Federal Archives (Bundesarkiv), Koblenz Germania Judaica, Cologne Herta Giesler, Bremen Dr. M. Hauner, Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin Helen Keller Center, Tel Aviv, Israel Margot Höxter, Hamburg The Jewish Congregation of Berlin (Dr. H. Simon) Körber Foundation (Körber Stiftung), Hamburg (Wolf Schmidt) Gerd Leienbach, Bremen Dr. Kikuji Nakanishi, Japan Hearing Handicapped Newspaper, Kyoto, Japan National Memorial Site (Nationale Mahn- und Gedenkstätte), Ravensbrück National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester, New York Parliamentary Archives, Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn Marla A. Petal, Temple Beth Solomon of the Deaf, Los Angeles Dr. Reiner Pommerin, Department of History, University of Cologne Protestant Academy (Evangelische Akademie), Bad Boll Hartmut Rauer, Oyten, Bremen Dr. Erwin Reichmann, Bremen Dr. Norbert Schmacke, Bremen School archives in Bielefeld, Bremen, Dillingen, Homberg, Nuremberg , Schleswig and Winnenden xviii Acknowledgments Waltraut Schulze, Bremen Frau Siebert, Kassel State Archives (Staatsarkiv), Bremen State Archives (Staatsarkiv), Freiburg Ina Tessmer-Glander, Bremen Ernst Waltemathe, Representative of the Lower House, Bremen/ Bonn Otto Welker, Frankfurt Yad Vashem, Jerusalem Acknowledgments xix CRYING HANDS ...