- Headline
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Nazi Sterilization Law Meets Scientists' Favor
- Publication Date
- Thursday, October 26, 1933
- Historical Event
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German Law Authorizes Sterilization for Prevention of Hereditary Diseases
This database includes 890 articles about this event - Article Type
- Newspaper
- Page Section and Number
- 5
- Author/Byline
- AP
- Article Text
- BERLIN, Oct. 25 —(AP) —The new nazi law providing sterilization of mental defectives and other undesirables met with favor in one scientific quarter Wednesday. Specialists at a meeting of the German Gynecological society described the measure as eugenically recommendable.
A broadening of the surgeon's responsibility to include the weal of the nation instead of merely the good of his patient was seen by Prof. Eugene Fischer, anthropologist and director of the Kaiser Wilhelm institute.
Prof. Fischer pointed out that mental defectives in Germany number nearly a quarter of a million, and unfortunately, he said, they were prolific. - History Unfolded Contributor
- Katherine V.
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