Nazi eugenics

Nazi eugenics was the regime’s program of racial hygiene, using forced sterilization, reproductive control, and mass murder to pursue its vision of hereditary and racial health.

Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring: A 1933 German law that authorized compulsory sterilization of people classified as having hereditary diseases. It gave hereditary-health claims a legal route to coercive sterilization.
Eugenics: A movement that sought to improve populations’ inherited traits by influencing reproduction. Nazi policy drew on eugenic claims while imposing its own racial hierarchy and dictatorship.
Ernst Rüdin: A Swiss-born German psychiatrist and geneticist who helped shape racial-hygiene policy and supported compulsory sterilization. His professional authority helped give Nazi sterilization policy scientific legitimacy.
Holocaust: The genocide of European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during the Second World War. Nazi racial ideology connected eugenic hierarchy to the persecution and destruction of Jews.
American eugenics movement: A United States movement that promoted hereditary improvement through policies including marriage restrictions and compulsory sterilization. It shows that eugenic policies existed beyond Germany, without equating their scope or outcomes with Nazi crimes.
Hereditary Health Courts: Special German courts that decided whether people should be sterilized under the 1933 sterilization law. They converted medical and administrative judgments into binding sterilization orders.
Racial hygiene: A doctrine that applied ideas about heredity and population health to racial classification and social policy. This German movement supplied the program’s characteristic language and policy framework.
Karl Brandt: Hitler’s physician and a senior official involved in the organization of Nazi medical killing programs. He helped administer the regime’s killing of disabled people and was later tried for crimes against humanity.
Roma Holocaust: The persecution and mass murder of Roma by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during the Second World War. Nazi racial policy targeted Roma people for exclusion, sterilization, and murder.
Nordic eugenics: Eugenic policies in Nordic countries, including compulsory sterilization programs enacted by several states. These policies offer a comparison with state sterilization outside the Nazi dictatorship.

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