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Pitt-Rivers was soon having regular meetings with the likes of Professor Karl Astel, chairman of the Hereditary Health Supreme Court – the court in Weimar that decided who was to be forcibly sterilised. ‘Our mission’, Astel wrote to Himmler, ‘is ceaselessly to promote a nobler, sounder, healthier life in conformity with the species.’
Travellers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism Through the Eyes of Everyday People
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