DOMINIC LAWSON: Photo That Reminds Us Eugenics Has Echoes For Today

A young woman with dreamy eyes, smartly dressed from her lace collar down, stares slightly away from the camera, as she stands in front of a picket fence. This is — or rather was — Ivy Angerer: one of many thousands of people with disabilities or mental health problems murdered by the Nazis between 1939 and 1941 as part of a medical programme known as ‘Aktion T4'.

This euthanasia scheme was organised under the auspices of the Reich Committee for the Scientific Registering of Serious Hereditary Congenital Illnesses.

If you loved this post and you wish to receive details regarding meritking giriş kindly visit our own web-site. What makes Ivy unusual is that she was born in this country (in 1911 at Hermitage Cottage, Broughty Ferry, near Dundee). And we know this largely because of research conducted over many years by Helen Atherton, 49, a registered nurse for people with learning disabilities, who is now a lecturer in the School of Healthcare at the University of Leeds.




British-born Ivy Angerer: one of many thousands of people with disabilities or mental health problems murdered by the Nazis between 1939 and 1941 as part of a medical programme known as ‘Aktion T4'   

That research has uncovered the details of 12 other British-born people who met their fate in the same way. Like Ivy, they were all from German or Austrian immigrant families, who later returned to what became the Reich — largely because of anti-German feelings here or the threat of internment as ‘enemy aliens' during World War I.