'Most have heard of the program in Nazi
Germany, in which more than 400,000 people considered unworthy of life —
those with hereditary illnesses, but also the dissident, the idle, the
homosexual, and the weak — were targeted for forced sterilization
beginning in the 1930s.
Few realize that the some of the
inspiration for Germany’s eugenics program, and even the language for
the Nuremberg racial hygiene laws, which among other restrictions banned
sexual intercourse between Jewish and non-Jewish Germans, came from
eugenicists who had been practicing for years in the United States. Some
60,000 American citizens were sterilized, often under coercion or
without consent.'
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