A South Oxfordshire author who cares for his wife is set to speak at the Westgate Library following the release of his book inspired by a genocide of disabled people in Germany.

Glenn Bryant, a registered carer for his wife, Juliet, who has a spinal cord injury and is paralysed from the waist down, released his second novel, 'Darkness Does Not Come At Once', earlier this year.

His talk at 6pm on August 29 will be titled 'The Holocaust history failed to mention. How did people from one community see through Hitler?'

His latest novel follows a 17-year-old disabled girl called Meike, who finds herself on the run in 1939 when the German government says disabled youngsters under 18 must spend the war in specially designated institutions.

Mr Bryant said: "I’ve always been interested in the Holocaust, since I first studied it at university."

His novel was inspired by a history book about disabled victims of the Holocaust given to him by his wife.

Mr Bryant noted a lack of awareness of this history, saying: "Why hasn’t history cared enough to tell future generations?"

He added: “Murders of members of Germany’s disabled community represented the Nazis’ first organised killings. And notably, the last.

"The final victim was a boy, Richard. He was four when he was murdered in Bavaria on May 29, 1945.

"‘Darkness Does Not Come At Once’, my novel, sits at the crossroads of all this."