The French mentally ill in World War II: The lesson of history

Article Abstract:

The fate of about seventy six thousand mentally ill persons who died between the years 1939 and 1944 is studied based on the French history of that period. The effect of the then eugenic policy as well as the influence of humanistic values of respect and compassion on the dire situation of the psychiatric patients is presented to shed some light on that sober period.

France, Evaluation, French history

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Spanish psychiatry: The Second Republic, the civil war and the aftermath

Article Abstract:

The analysis of Spanish history is presented to show that despite ideological and scientific differences among sections of the people, both mass sterilization and physical extermination of the mentally ill was not a feature of their psychiatry.

Spain, Analysis, Spanish history, Postwar society

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Bulgarian psychiatry in the period around World War II (1930-1950)

Article Abstract:

Evidence to show that there was no deliberate starving of the mentally ill in Bulgaria during World War II is presented, though the existing conditions were very poor for these people.

Public affairs, Bulgaria, Social aspects, Starvation, War victims

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