I thought you might find this interesting ...I never knew they had Deaf HJ and Deaf SA Units. The Eugenics policy was larger than I thought.
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http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/WorldAroundYou/holocaust/holocaust-gt.html

In putting together an exhibit in Germany to show what happened to deaf people during this period, Muhs interviewed many members of the deaf community. Many of the deaf people said they were taken in by Nazi propaganda, which only talked about the positive aspects of National Socialism. They couldn't hear the rumors; they didn't know what was happening to the Jews. "One day the Jews just weren't here any more," they told Muhs. "They were sent to the east to work." German deaf athletes who went to the World Games for the Deaf in Stockholm in 1939 learned what was happening in Germany from the other athletes there.

Berlin was home to many deaf community groups before World War II. Sterilization was being talked about in Germany before 1933, and some deaf organizations had joined together to work against this idea and formed a national organization, "Regede." But when Hitler came to power in 1933, the 25 deaf organizations in Berlin were subsumed into Regede, which became a Nazi organization. A deaf Nazi, Fritz Albreghs, was named president of the new organization. At the beginning, this organization had 4,700 members; membership grew to 12,000 as additional groups were "coordinated." All members of the organization were, thereby, members of the Nazi party. People who were not Nazis were removed from office in the deaf organizations. Deaf newspapers and other papers were censored, and finally only one deaf newspaper was left.

As the National Socialist party developed, it had its deaf supporters. These deaf Nazis cheered Hitler's rise to power. A June 1933 issue of the deaf newspaper, Die Stimme, talks about the founding of the first deaf storm trooper (S.A.) group, and there was also a deaf motorized S.A. unit. But a year later this deaf group was dissolved because it did not fit into the Nazi image.

During the Nazi years, employment improved for deaf people because hearing people were serving in the army. But other programs for deaf people—such as recreational programs—ended. Then, in 1934, the forced sterilization of people who were genetically deaf began.

By 1937, Muhs alleged, 95 percent of deaf children belonged to the Hitler Youth for the Deaf. The young members wore the letter "G" on their shoulder (for "gehoerlosen" deaf). After 1933, deaf Jewish children were removed from the deaf schools and were reported to the authorities. Newspapers for teachers of the deaf stressed that teachers must follow Nazi policies. Gradually, many deaf schools were closed and converted to military hospitals.

By the mid-1930s, Muhs noted, many deaf Jews sensed that they were about to be persecuted. They were removed from leadership positions in deaf organizations and athletic associations, and other deaf people lost contact with them. A deaf newspaper of those years carried an article stating that contact between Jews and non-Jews was forbidden.

One individual whom Muhs interviewed shared his memories of Kristallnacht—the "night of broken glass" when synagogues were burned and Jewish businesses looted. He saw shops being vandalized and asked his teacher what was happening. His teacher did not or would not speak out about what was happening and responded only, "Read the newspaper."

Before 1933, about 600 deaf Jews lived in Berlin. Only about 34 survived the war. Muhs interviewed some of them and asked about their time in the concentration camps. Had they told people they were deaf? They answered that they did not tell people they were deaf because that would have only created more problems.

Forced Sterilization
In 1979, after attending an athletic event, Horst Biesold asked a deaf friend of his father's, "Why don't you have a family?" The deaf man took him into another room. When they were alone, he broke down and cried. "Hitler cut," he signed.

That was the first time Biesold, now a teacher of the deaf and adjunct lecturer at the University of Bremen, learned about the forced sterilizations of deaf people that took place under National Socialism. "During my 12 years of working with deaf people, I'd never heard one word about sterilization," Biesold recalled. "I was suddenly aware of the complicity of my fellow teachers in this silence."

Biesold set out to talk with more than 1,200 people in the deaf community about this period of their lives. "I learned of the anguish and helplessness of some of the victims, and also of the courage of some who resisted. I learned of the psychological scars that deaf people carry." He also learned about the extermination of people with disabilities and about the murder of Jewish deaf people. Initially, he was skeptical; he could not believe that if such things had actually happened, deaf people or their advocates would not have talked about it when the war ended.

"I asked the pastor of a deaf congregation about this," he said. He was amazed when she told him that at least 100 members of her deaf congregation (of 600 people) had been forcibly sterilized. "She encouraged me to explore this chapter of Nazi atrocity."

Biesold's research resulted in the book Klagende Hande, which will be published next year in English by Gallaudet University Press under the title, Crying Hands: Eugenics and Deaf People in Nazi Germany. The book, which includes biographies of both the victims and the perpetrators, traces the path from genetic deafness to forced sterilization. The Nazi geneticists said that hereditary deafness needed to be removed from the gene pool. Those whose deafness was not hereditary were exempt from the law. The goal was to eliminate inferior life.