By the end of May, Germany had legalized eugenic sterilization, and less than two months later, when the Nazi Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases was approved, allowing the State to render incapable of procreation by means of a surgical operation any person suffering from a hereditary disease, if the experience of medical science shows that it is highly probable that his descendants would suffer from some serious physical or mental hereditary defect, a dictum that included not only those afflicted with congenital mental deficiency, schizophrenia, manic-depressive
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