Language:
French
Year of publication:
2019
Titel der Quelle:
L'information psychiatrique
Angaben zur Quelle:
95,7 (2019)
Keywords:
Psychiatric hospitals History 20th century
;
Psychiatric hospital patients
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
France History German occupation, 1940-1945
Abstract:
The fate of Jews in psychiatric hospitals in occupied Europe during the Second World War is inseparable from the general fate that the Nazi regime reserved for the disabled and mentally ill. More specifically, however, Jews found themselves at the confluence of eugenics, Christian anti-Judaism, and the racist and anti-Semitic mania of the Nazis. In France, the excess mortality rate in psychiatric hospitals during the occupation was staggering. It is estimated that between forty-five and fifty thousand mental patients were hospitalized. Jewish mental patients did not form a particular category and were therefore rarely mentioned as such—except on their medical records, where “Jew” or “Israelite” might be written. As part of our research, we focus on occupied countries in Europe. In France, we focus on a psychiatric hospital in the Paris region and a hospital in the central region of the country, close to the Loiret internment camps.
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