PUB - Publikationen an der Universität Bielefeld

The contribution critically analyzes the work with sources and documentary material in the historiography of special needs education. The focus is on sources regarding the period of National Socialism in the history of special needs education. On the basis of these sources, the author reveals emphases and gaps in the depiction of the Nazi era and gives examples of how sources are ignored or distorted. On the whole, the claim of the historiography of special needs education that its depiction of the Nazi era is empirically substantiated by source-related research is refuted.