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Hereditary Disease in Posterity," better known as the

Sterilization Law. The chief architect of this tyranny was Ernst
Rüdin, a professor of psychiatry at Munich University and
director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. Shortly after the
Sterilization Law was passed, Rüdin—together with a number
of Nazi Party lawyers and specialists—published a statement on
the law's meaning and aims. Essentially, its intent was to rid the

nation of "impure and undesirable" elements so that it might
achieve the Aryan ideal.
To subject the helpless in need of protection to the inhuman
treatment of eugenics could be acceptable only to those

deceived by the falsehoods of Social Darwinism. All these peo-
ple need to be helped with their sicknesses and weaknesses. The

Samples of eugenic studies carried out by the Kaiser
Wilhelm Institute

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