According to the „Gesetz zur Verhütung erbkranken Nachwuchses" (law for prevention of genetically ill offspring), valid from 1934, some 400 000 allegedly genetically ill humans - handicapped, mentally deranged and psychically diseased, backward schoolchildren, inmates of remand homes, „asocial" persons, criminals and addicted alcoholics - were forcibly sterilized.
With the beginning of World War II a domestic campaign of extermination was also started: The systematic seizure and murder of the inmates of asylums, nursing-homes and mental institutions within the scope of the so called „euthanasia"-campaign. The State of martial law was used to keep secret these killings planned since 1935. Founded by the Fuehrer's office and the „Reichsministerium des Innern" (Department of the Interior), an organisation based in Berlin (Tiergartenstr. 4) planned and organized these killings which were termed „euthanasia".
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With the beginning of World War II a domestic campaign of extermination was also started: The systematic seizure and murder of the inmates of asylums, nursing-homes and mental institutions within the scope of the so called „euthanasia"-campaign. The State of martial law was used to keep secret these killings planned since 1935. Founded by the Fuehrer's office and the „Reichsministerium des Innern" (Department of the Interior), an organisation based in Berlin (Tiergartenstr. 4) planned and organized these killings which were termed „euthanasia".
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