5. HEREDITARY HEALTH COURTS[137]
- PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NG-715
- PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 112
LAW OF 14 JULY 1933 FOR THE PREVENTION OF PROGENY WITH HEREDITARY DISEASES (GESETZ ZUR VERHUETUNG ERBKRANKEN NACHWUCHSES)
1933 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 529
The Reich government has enacted the following law, which is promulgated herewith:
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.