Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Josephine Sales

  • Divergent experiences of German and Jewish mothers in the Third Reich

    Josephine SalesWaco, Texas, United States In World War II Germany, National Socialist ideology transformed the private experience of motherhood into a political site where biology was weaponized to serve the state’s eugenic objectives. Under this regime, the “Aryan” woman’s body was declared property of the state for reproduction, while the wombs of those deemed “unfit”…