Thursday, April 26, 2018 - 18:00 to 19:00
An Foras Feasa Seminar Room, First Floor, Iontas, North Campus, MU
Synopsis:
Bethania (founded in 1893) was the first girls’ reformatory in Baden. It was designed to take in 'fallen girls' and those in danger of 'falling', as well as young women released from prison under twenty-one years of age. In the Third Reich, the Nazis first forced the institution to change the clientele, then the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring was applied, so that the term 'forecourt of hell' is an apt subtitle for this paper. How did the motherhouse and the sisters of Bethania deal with those developments?