1944-01-06: (Jeanne’s Letter on Infanticide and Misery — In a Family Letter on January 6 1944 Jeanne Writing “The Reports of Death Due to Physiological Miser…

1944-01-06: (Jeanne’s Letter on Infanticide and Misery — In a Family Letter on January 6 1944 Jeanne Writing “The Reports of Death Due to Physiological Misery and Undernourishment and Reports of a Birth on the Street Have Become a Commonplace Story in the Newspapers — and in Recent Months We Are Starting to Hear of Infanticide,” These Deaths Being Banally Infused into the Weekly News Cycles and It Being Casually Insinuated That the Pathogen in This Epidemic Was Women Themselves): In a family letter on January 6, 1944, Jeanne wrote that the reports of death due to physiological misery and undernourishment, and reports of a birth on the street, had become a commonplace story in the newspapers — and in recent months, they were starting to hear of infanticide. Unlike mortality from the virus, these deaths were banally infused into the weekly news cycles, and it was casually insinuated that the pathogen in this epidemic was women themselves — the press transformed women from victims of economic deprivation into perpetrators of violence, the structural crisis reframed as individual pathology.