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Read More about Germany’s Six “Euthanasia” Centers in Our 100-Page Special Exhibit Catalog -- only $19.99
 Nazi Germany was not the first country to sterilize the “unfit.” Before the Nazis, the United States had led the world in policies of compulsory sterilization. In 1907, Indiana became the first state to enact a sterilization law, and by the 1930s, more than half of the states had passed laws that authorized the sterilization of inmates of mental institutions and others.
Although the Nazis later defended their sterilization program in the Nuremberg trials by referring to the United States, and although sterilization rates climbed in the United States during the depression, the U.S. program was nowhere near the mass scale of the Nazis', nor was sterilization a forerunner to state-sponsored mass murder.
Read more about the six killing centers created for the systematic murder of Germany’s mentally and physically ill.
This unique 100-page, softcover exhibition catalog details activities at the six centers – Grafeneck, Brandenburg, Hartheim, Sonnenstein, Bernburg and Hadamar – and of the indispensable and enthusiastic participation of physicians and biomedical scientists in the murder of their patients seen as “lives not worth living.”
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