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2 March, 201711 January, 2017

Dragging Aktion T4 into the light

A brass plaque commemorating Elisabeth Schmidt, deported and murdered in the Nazi eugenics programme.
Posted in disability by s.e. smith

Aktion T4, the Nazi eugenics programme, was a dark, horrific part of World War Two history that’s still suppressed, and it shouldn’t be that way.

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8 August, 201317 May, 2013

What a Freakshow: A Strange Facet of Disability History

Posted in disability by s.e. smith

One of the few ways in which disabled people have always been able to earn a living is via the freakshow, a European tradition that exploded in the 1500s[1. Yes, freakshows are that old, and circus traditions in not just the West but the rest of the world are even older.]. Whether it was a […]

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