Posted by sigismund on February 9, 2013, at 0:51:30
In reply to Re: Going To The Lunatic Asylum, posted by Toph on February 4, 2013, at 9:58:11
>While a relatively small number of people were sterilized through the late 1920s, the number of sterilizations increased in the 1930s and remained high until the end of World War II.
When even they became embarrassed by recent events. I found a eugenics pamphlet when we were cleaning out our parents stuff, from before the war. Bright and cheerful it was.
We had the skeleton of the last full blood Tasmanian Aborigine on display in the Hobart museum until after the war.
>By 1873, Truganini was the sole survivor of the Oyster Cove group, and was again moved to Hobart. She died three years later, having requested that her ashes be scattered in the D'Entrecasteaux Channel; she was, however, buried at the former Female Factory at Cascades, a suburb of Hobart. Within two years, her skeleton was exhumed by the Royal Society of Tasmania and later placed on display.[9] Only in April 1976, approaching the centenary of her death, were Truganini's remains finally cremated and scattered according to her wishes.[10][11]
She knew it would be. She understood how things worked.
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