Crying hands : eugenics and deaf people in Nazi Germany / Horst Biesold ; translation by William Sayers ; introduction by Henry Friedlander.

Klagende Hände. English

Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, 1999.

xix, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

From Social Darwinism to National Socialism -- The concept of hereditary deafness under National Socialism -- Teacher-collaborators -- Forced abortions -- Deaf collaboration: REGEDE -- Deaf resistance -- The Jewish deaf in Germany -- Sterilizations's legacy -- Euthanasia and deaf Germans.

Includes index and bibliography: p. 211-222.