- Headline
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Nazi Sterilization Program Will Include Feeble-Minded
- Publication Date
- Monday, November 12, 1934
- 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
- 2
- Author/Byline
- AP
- Article Text
- Berlin, Nov. 11 (AP).—Germany's "slightly feeble-minded" are to be included in the Nazi sterilization program for elimination of future generations of physically and mentally unfit, it was disclosed today by Dr. von Holst of the Danzig municipal offices.
Meanwhile national feelings on the subject were running high, and unforseen complications were cropping up.
A Nazi party bulletin circulated today called the sterilization and emasculation program the "mere beginnings" of a national "purge," while simultaneously at Moabit, prison the sexual treatment of 111 hardened criminals since Nov. 11, 1933, was announced.
This was taken to indicate the Nazis do not propose to abondon[sic] the sterilization law which went into effect Jan. 1, 1934, bput[sic] there was much comment on news from Braunsberg that Professors Carl Eschweiler and Johannes Baron of the Roman Catholic Academy there had been dismissed on orders from the Vatican after having rendered an opinion that sterilization is not incompatible with Catholicism. - History Unfolded Contributor
- Lara Y.
- Location of Research
- Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com)
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