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Dagmar Herzog
Professor of history at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Author of The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s Twentieth Century.
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Jun 8, 2025
• 40min
The Third Reich's first genocide
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Dagmar Herzog, a history professor at the Graduate Center, CUNY and author of *The Question of Unworthy Life*, delves into the harrowing history of the Nazi regime's systematic extermination of nearly 300,000 individuals with disabilities. She discusses the chilling influence of eugenics and how societal attitudes toward disability allowed such atrocities to occur. Herzog highlights the bureaucratic methods behind the euthanasia program and the long struggle for recognition and reconciliation of these crimes in modern Germany.
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