Facial Disabled

As Gesichtsversehrter a person is called who in the First or Second World War serious violations of face suffered. Facial injuries were also called "war-crushed" or "faceless people". "The wounded suffered from severe disfigurement, the following psychological trauma and were often unable to feed themselves."

Disabled soldier

Disabled soldier with epithesis

Medical supplies

In the aftermath of the First World War, facial injuries "[...] have become a huge experimental field for the newly developing facial surgery ". Facial injuries in Germany were given medical care in the Charité and the University Hospital in Leipzig, for example . The dentist Christian Bruhn treated facial injuries in Düsseldorf . Epitheses were used to cover the facial injuries caused by the war . After the Second World War, in 1951, the German Society for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery was established as a specialist society .

Public representation

Otto Dix depicted facial injuries in his painting The Skat Players . In 1924 Ernst Friedrich dealt with these disabled people in the publication Krieg dem Krieg . In 1962, Heinz G. Konsalik published the novel The Gifted Face , which addresses the fate of the disabled.

literature

Kunstamt Kreuzberg / Institute for Theater Studies of the University of Cologne (ed.): Weimar Republic , 3rd improved edition, Elefanten Press Verlag , Berlin (West) 1977.
Melanie Ruff: Faces of the First World War. Everyday life, biographies and self-portraits of faced soldiers. In: Medicine, Society and History - Supplements, Volume 55, Franz Steiner Verlag , Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-515-11058-7 .

Web links

Madeleine Bernstorff: Introduction to the film Pour la paix du monde , accessed on July 28, 2020.
Rainer Sanner: People without a face , accessed on July 28, 2020.

Individual evidence

↑ Volker Hartmann: WAR INJURIES AND THEIR TREATMENT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR BASED ON PREPARATIONS FROM THE DEVELOPMENT PATHOLOGY COLLECTION OF THE BUNDESWEHR , accessed on July 28, 2020.
↑ Madeleine Bernstorff: Introduction to the film Pour la paix du monde , accessed on July 28, 2020.
^ History of the Polyclinic for Dental Prosthetics and Materials Science in Leipzig , accessed on July 28, 2020.
↑ The history of oral and maxillofacial surgery. Düsseldorf military hospital for jaw injuries 1914-1918: the birthplace of maxillofacial surgery , accessed on July 28, 2020.

[1] Volker Hartmann: WAR INJURIES AND THEIR TREATMENT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR BASED ON PREPARATIONS FROM THE DEVELOPMENT PATHOLOGY COLLECTION OF THE BUNDESWEHR , accessed on July 28, 2020.

[2] Madeleine Bernstorff: Introduction to the film Pour la paix du monde , accessed on July 28, 2020.

[3] History of the Polyclinic for Dental Prosthetics and Materials Science in Leipzig , accessed on July 28, 2020.

[4] The history of oral and maxillofacial surgery. Düsseldorf military hospital for jaw injuries 1914-1918: the birthplace of maxillofacial surgery , accessed on July 28, 2020.