Lutz Kaelber, "Children's Euthanasia": Murder, Scientific Utilization, Persecution, Remembrance

Annette Eberle, Children in the Focus of Biopolitics and Social Work : Nazi Collaboration and Post-War Stigmatisation

The Nazi regime's stigmatizing of certain children as being "unworthy of life" and "alien to the community" caused severe injustice, repression in welfare institutions, forced sterilization, transfer to youth concentration camps, or even murder. After liberation, the stigma imposed during the Nazi years had lifelong effects on surviving children, who generally were not recognized as victims of Nazi injustice. Two leading scholars of this history will share their insights in this mini-symposium.

Annette Eberle is an historian and professor of education at the Catholic Foundation University in Munich, Germany. Her main areas of research are social and medical policy in the 19th and 20th centuries, human rights abuses in the field of social welfare, and the memory culture surrounding Nazi medical policy and eugenics.

Lutz Kaelber is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Vermont. He studies collective memory and children with disabilities in Nazi Germany.