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256 Spring 2024

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Overland 256 is the third issue in a suite of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. Inside its pages you'll find: Daniel Browning on the politics of memory, Antonia Pont on impatience, Sarah Wehbe on Palestinian fury and joy, and a special editorial by our departing poetry editor Toby Fitch. There's also new short fiction from Rowan MacDonald, Bethany Lalor and Amalia Stone, and new poetry from Josie Suzanne, Tim Loveday, Lulu Houdini and more.

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Andreas Hechler

https://andreashechler.com/

Andreas Hechler lives in Berlin. He works on medical violence and other topics and is on the advisory board of the Organisation Intersex International (OII) Germany. He has written about Nazi ‘euthanasia’ for Disability Studies Quarterly and welcomes contact with other descendants of the victims and survivors of the program through his website andreashechler.com

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22 February 202123 March 2021 · History

In memory of Emilie Rau and of the other victims of Nazi ‘euthanasia’

Andreas Hechler

This week it’s exactly eighty years since my great-grandmother, Emilie Rau, was murdered in a gas chamber built into the cellar of an asylum in Hadamar, a small town close to Frankfurt. She was forty-nine and had four children, of which my grandmother was the eldest.