THE ISLAND OF MISFITS
In 1911 Denmark stepped on to the world stage as pioneers of population hygiene. Through eugenics—a then-popular theory aimed at improving the genetic quality of the human population—a Danish state-funded institution for the “morally insane” opened at small island called Livø.
For some the island was an idyllic and modern place, where the misfits of society lived in a natural beauty alongside the island’s local community. But for Erik Dam (pictured), the island was a place of forced labor, deprivation and isolation.
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