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Nurses and Nursing in Nazi Germany + Fog in August film screening

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Please note this is a COVID safe event. Tickets (free) are required and seats are limited. If tickets are unavailable this means the venue is full. We apologise in advance for any inconvenience. The exhibition, lectures and film are fit for viewing by persons aged 15 years or more.

Nurses killed their patients more often than doctors did in the Nazi 'euthanasia" programmes, though historically their crimes have had far less attention. This presentation describes nursing in Nazi Germany and how, as a profession, it became complicit in genocide.

The film Fog in August (Nebel im August), 2016, directed by Kai Wessel is based on the novel of the same name by Robert Domes who was inspired by the documented true story of the 14 year old Yenish boy Ernst Lossa (1929–1944). Ernst's story is also featured in the exhibition registered, persecuted, annihilated.

Lecture and film introduction delivered by:

Professor Linda Shields, Children's Health Queensland Clinical Unit

Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland.

Linda is joint editor of Nurses and Midwives in Nazi Germany (Routledge, 2014).

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