The chosen ones, Steve Sem-Sandberg ; translated from the Swedish by Anna Paterson
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- Vienna (Austria) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
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- Fiction
- Children + Nazi persecution -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Euthanasia -- Austria -- Vienna -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 + Children -- Austria -- Vienna -- Fiction
- FICTION / Literary
- Children + Institutional care -- Austria -- Fiction
- Spiegelgrund (Children's institution) -- Fiction
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The chosen ones, Steve Sem-Sandberg ; translated from the Swedish by Anna Paterson
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eng
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fiction
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The chosen ones
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918994990
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Steve Sem-Sandberg ; translated from the Swedish by Anna Paterson
Summary
The Am Spiegelgrund clinic, in glittering Vienna, masqueraded as a well-intentioned reform school for wayward boys and girls and a home for chronically ill children. The reality, however, was very different: in the wake of Germany's annexation of Austria on the eve of World War II, its doctors, nurses, and teachers created a monstrous parody of the institution's benign-sounding brief. The Nazi regime's euthanasia program would come to determine the fate of many of the clinic's inhabitants
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