War invalids
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
- Disability (social law)
- German war invalids in the 20th century
- Invalid Cemetery
- Invalidenhaus Berlin
- Invictus Games
- Military service damage
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