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| HEREDITARY HEALTH COURTS* | |
| PARTIAL
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NG-715 PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 112 |
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| LAW OF 14 JULY
1933 FOR THE PREVENTION OF PROGENY WITH HEREDITARY DISEASES (GESETZ ZUR VERHUETUNG ERBKRANKEN NACHWUCHSES) |
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| 1933 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 529 | |
| The Reich
government has enacted the following law, which is promulgated herewith: |
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| Article 1 | |
| 1. Whoever is afflicted with a
hereditary disease can be sterilized by operation, if according to experience
of medical science a hereditary impairment of his progeny, either physical or
mental, is to be expected in all likelihood. 2. Whoever suffers from one of the following diseases is afflicted with a hereditary disease according to this law (1) Hereditary imbecility. (2) Schizophrenia. (3) Circular (manic-depressive) psychosis. (4) Hereditary epilepsy. (5) Hereditary St. Vitus' dance (Huntingtonian Chorea). (6) Hereditary blindness. (7) Hereditary deafness. (8) Bad hereditary physical malformation. 3. Any person suffering from chronic alcoholism can also be sterilized. |
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| Article 2 | |
| 1. The right to file such an
application rests with the person to be sterilized. If he is incompetent or has
been put under tutelage because of feeble mindedness or being under 18 years of
age, this right rests with the legal representative and is subject to approval
by the court of guardianship. In all other cases of limited competence, the
consent of the legal representative is needed for the application. In case an
adult person has been under guardianship, the guardian's consent is mandatory.
2. A certificate of a physician, approved in Germany, has to be attached to this application, stating that the person to be sterilized has been familiarized with the meaning and the consequences of a sterilization. |
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* The hereditary health courts dealt with sterilization of human beings. Because of space limitations, a relatively small amount of the evidence introduced in the Justice Case has been reproduced in this volume. However, sterilization also the subject of charges in the Medical Case. See "Medical Experiments — Experiments for Mass Sterilization" (sec. VII A 15, Vol. I, pp. 694 ff, this series).
