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Deaf Organizations During The Holocaust
In Germany, a number of social welfare organisations for deaf people existed at the accession to power of the Nazi Party in 1933. Some of these collaborated with the Nazi regime. ReGeDe Before 1927, there were hundreds of deaf clubs around Germany. Each club had its own agenda and differed by city and deaf community. In 1927, during Weimar Germany, a transformation began and changed the deaf community in Germany. Beginning The Reichsgewerkschaft der Gehörlosen Deutschlands, abbreviated and stylized as ReGeDe, was known in English as The Reich Union of the Deaf of Germany, and was founded in 1927 in Weimar, Germany as a social organization. By the Easter of 1933, ReGeDe was part of the National Socialists' public welfare program. Less than a year later, ReGeDe claimed to have more than 3,900 members, including deaf activist Karl Wacker, who fought on behalf of the deaf community against the sterilization law. The ReGeDe union included such groups as deaf advocacy and support ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deafness
Deafness has varying definitions in cultural and medical contexts. In medical contexts, the meaning of deafness is hearing loss that precludes a person from understanding spoken language, an audiological condition. In this context it is written with a lower case ''d''. It later came to be used in a cultural context to refer to those who primarily communicate through sign language regardless of hearing ability, often capitalized as ''Deaf'' and referred to as "big D Deaf" in speech and sign. The two definitions overlap but are not identical, as hearing loss includes cases that are not severe enough to impact spoken language comprehension, while cultural Deafness includes hearing people who use sign language, such as children of deaf adults. Medical context In a medical context, deafness is defined as a degree of hearing difference such that a person is unable to understand speech, even in the presence of amplification. In profound deafness, even the highest intensity sound ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazi Party
The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (german: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right politics, far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism. Its precursor, the German Workers' Party (; DAP), existed from 1919 to 1920. The Nazi Party emerged from the Extremism, extremist German nationalism, German nationalist, racism, racist and populism, populist paramilitary culture, which fought against the communism, communist uprisings in post–World War I Germany. The party was created to draw workers away from communism and into nationalism. Initially, Nazi political strategy focused on anti–big business, anti-bourgeoisie, bourgeois, and anti-capitalism, anti-capitalist rhetoric. This was later downplayed to gain the support of business leaders, and in the 1930s, the party's main focus shifted to Antisemitism, antisemitic and Criticism of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Racial Hygiene
The term racial hygiene was used to describe an approach to eugenics in the early 20th century, which found its most extensive implementation in Nazi Germany (Nazi eugenics). It was marked by efforts to avoid miscegenation, analogous to an animal breeder seeking purebred animals. This was often motivated by the belief in the existence of a racial hierarchy and the related fear that "lower races" would "contaminate" a "higher" one. As with most eugenicists at the time, racial hygienists believed that the lack of eugenics would lead to rapid social degeneration, the decline of civilization by the spread of inferior characteristics. Development The German eugenicist Alfred Ploetz introduced the term "racial hygiene" (') in 1895 in his ''Racial Hygiene Basics'' ('). He discussed the importance of avoiding "counterselective forces" such as war, inbreeding, free healthcare for the poor, alcohol and venereal disease. In its earliest incarnation it was more concerned by the declining bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athletics (physical Culture)
Athletics is a term encompassing the human competitive sports and games requiring physical skill, and the systems of training that prepare athletes for competition performance. Athletic sports or contests are competitions which are primarily based on human physical competition, demanding the qualities of stamina, fitness, and skill. Athletic sports form the bulk of popular sporting activities, with other major forms including motorsports, precision sports, extreme sports and animal sports. Athletic contests, as one of the earliest types of sport, are prehistoric and comprised a significant part of the Ancient Olympic Games, along with equestrian events. The word "athletic" is derived from the grc, άθλος (athlos) meaning "contest." Athletic sports became organized in the late 19th century with the formation of organizations such as the Amateur Athletic Union in the United States and the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques in France. The Intercollegi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markus Reich
Markus Reich (born 1844- May 23, 1911, Kolín, Bohemia) was a teacher for the deaf. He was the founder of Israelite Institution for the Deaf of Germany. Early life and education In 1865, when he was 21 years old, he went to Germany to learn everything that he could to become qualified to teacher for the deaf at the Jewish Teachers Training College and from 1870 to 1871 worked and studied at the Royal Institution for the Deaf in Berlin. Reich also worked as a private tutor; he used his money to purchase books about the deaf and deafness. His inspiration and drive came from an acquaintance he had with a deaf man who “was educated, well brought up, and could speak.” Reich saw how having a good education positively affected his acquaintance's life. He was determined to “make complete, worthy, happy people of the deaf.” While attending the Royal Institution of the Deaf he noticed that Jewish children were denied admission into the school. That drove him to establish a Jew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Federation Of The Deaf
The German Association of the Deaf (DGB), German: Deutscher Gehörlosen-Bund, is a national association for the deaf in Germany. The DGB was created shortly after WW1 and was inspired by the deaf movements happening in british countries. the symbol of te DGB is a narwhal. The DGB is affiliated to the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) and the European Union of the Deaf. It was established in 1950 as a successor to Reich Union of the Deaf of Germany. Its headquarters are in Berlin. The president is Helmut Vogel. Presidents of DGB and preceding organizations * 1913–1915 Karl Pawlek * 1915–1917 Josef Pollanetz * 1917–1919 Franz Wilhelm * 1919–1921 Theodor Kratochwil * 1921–1923 Georg Schwarzböck * 1923–1926 Karl Pawlek * 1926–1928 Theodor Kratochwil * 1928–1938 Georg Schwarzböck * 1940–1943 Karl Johann Brunner * 1946–1949 Heinrich Prochazka * 1949–1955 Karl Altenaichinger * 1956–1960 Heinrich Prochazka * 1960–1965 Karl Johann Brunner * 1965–1970 Gerh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
