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Peer reviewedMostert, Mark P. – Journal of Special Education, 2002
This article describes historical attitudes toward people with disabilities in Germany and how this context produced mass murder of people with disabilities prior to and during World War II. Key marker variables are examined, including the rise of Darwinism and eugenics. Resistance to disability as a genocidal marker is discussed. (Contains…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, Disabilities, Disability Discrimination, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedMilton, Sybil – Social Education, 1991
Documents the systematic extermination of Jews, Gypsies, Blacks, and the handicapped by the Nazis between 1933 and 1945. Notes eugenic and racial measures such as forced sterilization of mulatto and handicapped children were used. Discusses Nazi policies of deportations and mass murder. Identifies need for research to explain the racial context of…
Descriptors: Blacks, Context Effect, Disability Discrimination, Discriminatory Legislation
