title: Unseen Victims: The Nazi Racial Hierarchy and the Murder of Psychiatric Patients in Nazi-Occupied Europe.
abstract: &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This thesis comparatively examines the persecution of neurodiverse people in Nazi-occupied Poland, the USSR, France and the Netherlands, focussing specifically on the methods of extermination to argue that an intersectional analysis is needed to understand the experience of this group of victims. This approach acknowledges the peculiarities of persecutions while resisting the way that historical research on the Holocaust often categorises victims into groups separate from 