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Holtzbrinck Lecture His Left Foot: Joseph Goebbels and the Uses of Disability Historian Douglas C. Baynton wrote that "disability is everywhere in history, once

His Left Foot: Joseph Goebbels and the Uses of Disability Home » Events » Upcoming » His Left Foot: Joseph Goebbels and the Uses of Disability Joseph Goebbels, Feb. 1, 1932. Courtesy Bundesarchiv Bild 102-13168. Holtzbrinck Lecture His Left Foot: Joseph Goebbels and the Uses of Disability Historian Douglas C. Baynton wrote that “disability is everywhere in history, once you begin looking for it, but conspicuously absent in the histories we write.” The exception that proves the rule is the historical and popular treatment of Nazi minister of propaganda Joseph Goebbels’s “club foot,” which, rather than being conspicuously absent, is conspicuously present in popular and historical writings about Goebbels. In this talk, Anne Finger considers how tropes of disability have been marshaled in discussions of Nazism in an attempt to paint it as monstrous and devilish, rather than having links to more widespread currents of anti-Semitism, white supremacy, and eugenics. Mar 12 2019 Cultural Studies 12.03.2019 19:30 - 21:00 American Academy in Berlin Am Sandwerder 17-19 14109 Berlin-Wannsee ***Wheelchair accessible*** Find on Google Maps Speaker: Anne Finger This event took place on March 12, 2019. Beyond the Lecture: Anne Finger on Disability and the Politics of Memory Writer Anne Finger is in Berlin to research histories of disability in the city. In t... Read more Fellow Spotlight: Anne Finger Anne Finger is a writer of creative nonfiction and fiction, and an activist for the disabled. She has written about her disability in Elegy for a Disease: A Personal and Cultural History of Pol... Read more His Left Foot: Joseph Goebbels and the Uses of Disability Writer Anne Finger considers how tropes of disability have been marshaled in discussions of Nazism in an attempt to paint it as monstrous and devilish, rather than having links to more widespread c... Read more

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