Overview
- Description
- This collection contains materials on forced sterilization, euthanasia, and racial research. It documents the racial hygiene administration and organization prior to the implementation of the T4 program.
- Date
-
inclusive:
1934-1945
- Collection Creator
- Erbgesundheitsgerichte
- Biography
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The Erbgesundheitsgerichte were in the German Reich by the Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring introduced from July 14, 1933. They decided to outwardly quite shaped process on forced sterilizations mentally and physically disabled people, patients of psychiatric hospitals and nursing homes as well as alcoholics and thus were tool for the enforcement of Nazi racial hygiene that belittled the man a mere object of state power of disposal until May 1945. due to the decisions of Erbgesundheitsgerichte about 350,000 people were forcibly sterilized [Wikipedia]
- Reference
- Article with links to reference materials: http://www.landesarchiv-berlin.de/php-bestand/anzeige.php?edit=20118&anzeige=A%20Rep.%20356
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Extent
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177 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 35 mm.
digital images.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. Users are required to complete and sign a User Declaration in order to gain access to the collection.
- Conditions on Use
- These files may contain personal, partly intimate information on various persons. If these persons were born less than 90 years ago or died less than ten years ago, their personal data need to be protected. Users are obliged to treat these data confidentially and to refrain from sharing copies they might produce with third parties. If used in publications, personal information is to be anonymized. The copies of published books or articles based on these records should be sent to the State Archive Berlin (Landesarchiv Berlin). No reproduction of microfilms for third parties, or publication of documents without written consent by Landesarchiv Berlin.
- Copyright Holder
- Landesarchiv Berlin
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Germany. Heredity, Human--Research--Germany--Berlin--History--20th century. Human Genome Project--Moral and ethical aspects. Human experimentation in medicine--Germany--Berlin--History--20th century. Eugenics--Germany--History--20th century. Euthanasia--Germany--Berlin--History. Medical ethics--Moral and ethical aspects. National socialism and medicine--Germany--Beriln. People with disabilities--Germany--History. Involuntary sterilization--Law and legislation--Germany--Berlin--History--20th century. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--History--20th century.
- Geographic Name
- Berlin (Germany)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
Landesarchiv Berlin
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Landesarchiv Berlin, Germany. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in November 2014.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 17:54:22
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn86420
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