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Conversation with Dagmar Herzog: Author of the Question of Unworthy Life.

Photo from 1944 shows 20 German girls and women gathered for deportation and killing by the Nazis. All wear long winter coats. Most wear hats or kerchiefs. One holds a doll. An older woman holds a purse. Some speak to their neighbor. One wipes her eyes.
Tue, 09/15/2026

Cover of Dagmar Herzog's book: The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany's Twentieth Century. A photo shows a dozen children, some using wheelchairs; all are white and dressed in early 20th century long dresses or knickers. Nazi Genocide Against Disabled People

Join a powerful conversation with Dagmar Herzog, author of The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s Twentieth Century, winner of the 2025 Book Award of the Disability History Association (DHA). September 15, 7:00-8:00pm Eastern Time. Rich Cairn of Emerging America and the DHA Board will facilitate. 

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Learn more about Dagmar Herzog and the book from the publisher, Princeton University Press

 

Disability History Association Book Award

The Disability History Association Book Award promotes the relevance of disability history and facilitates research, publication, conference travel, and public history initiatives related to disability history. Reviewers recognized Herzog's Question of Unworthy Life as "a vital addition to studies of the Nazi Aktion T4 project to exterminate disabled persons." (See the DHA website for further details on the selection of this volume and on the association's awards program.) 

 

 

 

Further Information

For an introduction to Nazi genocide of disabled people, see the Emerging America essay by Wyatt Edwards: The Persistence of Disabled Children and Their Allies During Aktion T4 and the Holocaust

Photos from The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany's Twentieth Century. Used with permission of the author. 

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