Today during small group, some people had questions on how the Nazis were able to get all the disabled citizens sterilized and how they enforced it. They created a law called the "Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseased Offspring". The Nazis main goal behind sterilization was to create a racially pure society of "Aryans" by having "genetically sound families with many children of high racial value". The Nazis didn't just plan to sterilize disabled citizens, they wanted to sterilize people of inferior races, like Jews, Africans, and "Gypsies". To enforce the law, the Nazis created the Department for Gene and Race Care as well as "genetic health courts". Here, doctors and lawyers would work together to decide who would be sterilized; the individual had no say in whether they were sterilized or not. Often times, police force was used to bring the individual to the operation table. Between 1933 and 1939, approximately 320,000 German women and young girls were sterilized.
http://history1900s.about.com/od/holocaust/a/sterilization.htm
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