Wooden door from the Zentrum fuer Soziale Psychiatrie Rheinblick (Eichberg Psychiatric Clinic) in Eltville, Germany, has metal fittings and a rectangular hole that was possibly used to observe patients held in a solitary confinement cell. The door was used from the nineteenth century onward.

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"This book informs the public for the first time about the impact of American psychiatry on soldiers during World War II. Breaking Point is the first in-depth history of American psychiatry in World War II. Drawn from unpublished primary documents, oral histories, and the author's personal interviews and correspondence over years with key psychiatric and military policymakers, it begins with Franklin ...

Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-237). 238 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

The Erbgesundheitsgerichte were in the German Reich by the Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring introduced from July 14, 1933. They decided to outwardly quite shaped process on forced sterilizations mentally and physically disabled people, patients of psychiatric hospitals and nursing homes as well as alcoholics and thus were tool for the enforcement of Nazi racial hygiene that ...

Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe argues for a more comprehensive understanding of what constitutes Nazi violence and who was affected by this violence. The works gathered consider sexual violence, food depravation, and forced labor as aspects of Nazi aggression. Contributors focus in particular on the Holocaust, the persecution of the Sinti and Roma, the eradication of "useless eaters" (psychiatric ...

Memoirs of a Jew, born as Henriette Dwinger (1918-2006) in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands; chs. 3-6 (pp. 53-127) relate her experiences in the Holocaust. Shandler was in Amsterdam when the country was occupied by the Germans in May 1940. She gave birth to a daughter that year, shortly before her German Jewish boyfriend was deported and killed. In 1942 she married Ernst Bollegraaf; her parents, as well ...

This collection documents the lives of members of an Austrian Jewish family whose destinies were forever changed by the rise of Nazism. The papers date from immediately after the Anschluss until the 1950s, by which time the surviving members had settled in their newly adopted countries. The largest group of letters date from 1938-1939, after Ludwig Bieder left Austria for Switzerland and before he ...

This work contains two parts. Pt. 1 (pp. 15-79), "Vom antijüdischen Konsens zum schlechten Gewissen: Die deutsche Gesellschaft und die Judenverfolgung 1933-1945", by Bajohr, argues that without societal participation and broad approbation of the Nazi dictatorship, the persecution of Jews would not have taken such a drastic course. The anti-Jewish consensus perceived Jews as strangers, thus there was ...

The collection consists of the personal records of the Nachlass Landesbischof Theophil Wurm (Bishop Theophil Wurm). The collection is divided into four parts. The first part of the collection contains a variety of speeches, sermons, and correspondence which span the entirety of Bishop Wurm’s professional life. Most bear no immediate relevance to the war but were included as they provide historical ...

In 2011, 35 interview transcripts were deposited at the 20th Század Hangja Archive and Research Group. These include ten family group discussions, sometimes with two to four people, and several individual interviews recorded independently, i.e. without the involvement of other family members. The total length of the existing transcripts is approx. 1,800 typed pages. In the conversations, family stories ...

Simche Münzer (Simcha / Siegfried Minzer, 1904-1945) was born on September 6, 1904, in Kanczuga, Poland to Moses Aron Münzer and Esther Malka Münzer (née Einhorn). Gisele (Gitel, 1905-2001) was born on May 20, 1905, in Rymanów, Poland. The couple, distantly related cousins, met when they were teenagers. In the late 1920’s, Simche moved to The Hague, where his brother Emil lived and opened a tailoring ...