Article ID: CBB001220452

Die “Krüppelfürsorge” in der Weimarer Republik. Zwischen eigenem Standpunkt und diskursiver Anschlussfähigkeit an eugenische Argumentationsstrukturen (2011)

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The `Krüppelfürsorge' during the Weimar Republic. Oscillating between an Own Position and the Adoption of Eugenic Arguments. This article examines the discourse about physical disability led by the German `Krüppelfürsor-ge'. It deals with the exhibition GeSoLei (Gesundheitspflege, soziale Fürsorge and Leibesübungen), which took place in Düsseldorf in 1926. The GeSoLei was one of the most popular platforms of the healthy and aesthetic body in the 1920s. It stood in the context of the German `national recovery' after World War I and collected all types of medical, social and athletic professionals to expose their work to a broader audience. Also representatives of the so called `Krüppelfürsorge' presented themselves and at the same time their perspective on people with physical disabilities on this exhibition. The article points out the ambivalent character of their perspective and shows the mixture of including and excluding people with physical disabilities, which was typical for the view of the `Krüppelfürsorge'. It demonstrates that the `Krüppelfürsorger' on the one hand were quite progressive towards people with disabilities, but on the other hand showed a striking openness towards eugenic values.

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Authors & Contributors
Kravetz, Melissa
Sheffer, Edith
Sorvillo, Craig
Gianluca Nesi
Paul R. Lawrie
Federico Edoardo Perozziello
Concepts
Eugenics
Public health
Medicine
National Socialism
Disabilities; disability; accessibility
Medicine and ethics
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
Places
Germany
Weimar Republic (1919-1933)
United States
Soviet Union
Great Britain
Institutions
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Anthropologie, Menschliche Erblehre und Eugenik
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