War invalids

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Leg amputee disabled of the Second World War

As war veterans , including disabled , are war victims referred whose wounds left lasting physical or mental damage.

In 19th century parlance , physically handicapped people were called cripples . Based on this term, the Berlin orthopedist Konrad Biesalski differentiated war cripples from peace cripples .

Expressions like cripple and war cripple were initially descriptive terms; In 1909 the German Association for Cripple Welfare was established in Berlin , and in 1920 the Prussian law on public cripple welfare was passed. However, they were increasingly perceived as derogatory .

German military doctors introduced the term war invalids in the First World War . The term war disabled developed from this .

See also

literature

  • Klaus-Dieter Thomann: The disabled child. “Krüppelfürsorge” and orthopedics in Germany 1886–1920 (= research on the recent history of medicine and biology , Volume 5), Gustav Fischer Verlag , Stuttgart / Jena / New York 1995, ISBN 3-437-11699-1 .
  • Felix Welti : Disability and rehabilitation in the social constitutional state - freedom, equality and participation of disabled people (= Jus Publicum , Volume 139). Mohr Siebeck Verlag , Tübingen 2005, ISBN 978-3161487255 .

Web links

Commons : Disabled veterans  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wiktionary: War invalids  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Wiktionary: War invalids  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Act on the Care of the Physically Disabled and Persons at Risk of Physical Disability (Physically Disabled Act) of January 27, 1957, Section 19 , accessed on January 21, 2020.