Racism as social policy: The Nazi ‘euthanasia’ programme, 1939–1945

Burleigh, Michael

doi:10.1080/01419870.1991.9993722

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“…Other more recent examples include the use of schooling and healthcare provisioning or housing policy to enforce segregation in the US, whether explicitly during the John Crow era, or implicitly up to the present (see Rothstein, ; Solomon et al., ; Taylor, ). Nazism in Germany made very potent use of social policy in mobilizing popular support and ordering social relations, as explored in the 2019 edited book by Kott and Patel (see Burleigh, ); this built on the conservative Bismarckian foundations that were also originally intended to counteract socialist movements among the working classes. Various social policies were deployed under various colonial regimes, for organizing labour, enforcing segregation, or preventing unrest, among other functions (e.g.…”

Section: Turning a Centrist Blind Eyementioning

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The Dark Sides of Social Policy: From Neoliberalism to Resurgent Right‐wing Populism

Fischer¹

2020

Development and Change

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This Forum Debate explores the confluence of neoliberal, populist, conservative and reactionary influences on contemporary ideologies and practices of social policy, with a focus on the poorer peripheries of global capitalism. Several fundamental tensions are highlighted, which are largely overlooked by the social policy and development literatures. First, many recent social policy innovations have been discredited by their association with neoliberalism. The rising political Right has been much more successful than the Left at exploiting this discontent, despite simultaneously deepening many aspects of neoliberalism once in power. At the same time, right‐wing movements have proactively used social policy as a political tool to fashion the social order along lines deemed amenable for their interests and ideologies, expressed along nationalist, racialized, ethnicized, nativist, religious, patriarchal or other lines, and to innovate practices of segregation, exclusion and subordination. While these synergies of neoliberal and right‐wing populism are observed globally, they need to be carefully and differentially interpreted from the perspective of late industrializing (or late welfare state) peripheral countries. Nonetheless, common themes occurring across both centres and peripheries, as identified by the invited contributions to this Debate section, include exclusionary identity politics, hierarchical and subordinating inclusions, and patriarchal familialism. In this context, segregationism is an ominous possibility of post‐neoliberal social policy.

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Section: Turning a Centrist Blind Eyementioning

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The Dark Sides of Social Policy: From Neoliberalism to Resurgent Right‐wing Populism

Fischer¹

2020

Development and Change

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“…About 350,000 people were sterilized between 1934 and 1939 (Burleigh, 1991). In September 1939, Hitler issued a decree for the murder of the disabled, and in the same year an order was issued by the Ministry of the Interior that doctors and midwives must report newborn babies with deformities to the health services.…”

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The fate of Jews hospitalized in mental hospitals in France during World War II

Mouchenik¹,

Fau-Vincenti²

2020

Hist Psychiatry

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The fate of Jewish psychiatric patients in occupied Europe during World War II is inseparable from the fate of the disabled and mentally ill, as planned by the Nazi regime. But Jews found themselves at the confluence of eugenics, Christian anti-Judaism and Nazi racist and anti-Semitic madness. They faced the twin promise of death – both as Jews and as mentally ill. They did not escape from the euthanasia programme and, if by a miracle they survived, they disappeared into the extermination camps. The modalities of annihilation of Jewish psychiatric patients are inseparable from the forms of German occupation, which differed from country to country. In this research we focus initially on various countries in occupied Europe, and then on France.

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“…Propaganda, in the form of cartoons, posters, film, and other popular media, paved the way for collective distancing by branding as other and relegation to the margins outside the scope of moral standing and consideration. 22,24,25,27,[55][56][57][58] The T-4 program of euthanasia of disabled people in Germany was an extreme example of what can happen when patients become totally other, too less-than-human to have individual rights, futures, or relationships with caregivers. Within contexts of the collectivity taking absolute precedence over the individual and little opposition from the public, destruction of lives faces less resistance from one's conscience when the victim is no longer a person and no relationship has been established.…”

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Ethical vulnerabilities in nursing history: Conflicting loyalties and the patient as ‘other’

Lagerwey

2010

Nurs Ethics

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The purpose of this article is to explore enduring ethical vulnerabilities of the nursing profession as illustrated in historical chapters of nursing's past. It describes these events, then explores two ethical vulnerabilities in depth: conflicting loyalties and duties, and relationships with patients as 'other'. The article concludes with suggestions for more ethical approaches to the other in current nursing practice. The past may be one of the most fruitful sites for examining enduring ethical vulnerabilities of the nursing profession. First of all, professional identity, which includes moral identity, comes in part from knowledge of the nursing profession's past. Second, looking to the past to understand better how events and ideologies have brought vulnerabilities to the fore raises questions about ethical nursing practice today.

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Racism as social policy: The Nazi ‘euthanasia’ programme, 1939–1945

Cited by 12 publications

References 3 publications

The Dark Sides of Social Policy: From Neoliberalism to Resurgent Right‐wing Populism

The Dark Sides of Social Policy: From Neoliberalism to Resurgent Right‐wing Populism

The fate of Jews hospitalized in mental hospitals in France during World War II

Ethical vulnerabilities in nursing history: Conflicting loyalties and the patient as ‘other’

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