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who founded racial hygiene in Germany, announced that he fully supported Schallmeyer's barbaric ideas.

He insisted, for example, that at times of war, the racially inferior should be sent to the front in order to
protect the white race. Since soldiers fighting in the front lines were generally killed, this would preserve
the "purer" part of the race from being weakened unnecessarily. Going even further, he suggested that a

panel of doctors be present at each birth to judge whether the infant was fit enough to live, and, if not, kill
it. 122
These terrifying recommendations were the first moves made by the eugenics movement prior to Nazi
rule. On 14 July 1933, four months after the elections that brought the Nazis to power, the eugenics and so-
called "mental hygiene" movement began spreading rapidly. Before that date, sterilization for purposes of

eugenics was banned, even though it was carried out in practice. But now, permission was given for the
implementation of eugenic savagery under the "Law for the Prevention of 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 state-
ment on the law's meaning and aims. Essentially, its intent was to rid the nation of "impure and undesir-
able" 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 people need to be helped with their
sicknesses and weaknesses. The Nazis thought they could treat them as they wished, caused terrible scenes
of barbarity for as long as they remained in power.

According to this terrible law put into effect in Germany, sterilization could be performed without the
permission of the person concerned. A state doctor had the legal right to conduct forcible sterilization, with
police assistance. In his book Into the Darkness: Nazi Germany Today, the pro-Nazi American Lothrop
Stoddard wrote of his impressions of the eugenic courts during a visit to Germany. An official from the tu-
berculosis section of the public health service headquarters told Stoddard the following:

The treatment given a tuberculosis patient is partly determined by his social worth. If he is a valuable citizen
and his case is curable, no expense is spared. If he is adjudged incurable ... no special effort is made to prolong
slightly an existence which will benefit neither the community nor himself. Germany can nourish only a certain
amount of human life at a given time. We National Socialists are in duty bound to foster individuals of social
and biological value. 123

In Islamic moral values, however, people possess an equal right to treatment, no matter what their ma-

terial means, rank or status. To abandon people to die because they have various physical defects or are
not wealthy is clearly murder; and to seek to implement this in the social sphere constitutes mass murder.
The scope of Nazi Germany's
Sterilization Law was increasingly broad-

ened. On 24 November 1933, it was de-
creed that "habitual offenders against pub-
lic morals" were to be sterilized. The Nazis'
"racial pollution" theses now included the

crime of opposing public morality. The
years that followed would show that the
National Socialists' terrible plans were by
no means limited to sterilization.

Samples of eugenic studies carried out by the Kaiser
Wilhelm Institute

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