Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring or "Sterilisation Law" was a statute in Nazi Germany enacted on 14 July 1933, which allowed the compulsory sterilisation of any citizen who in
Gütt-Rüdin-Ruttke a
Reich Law Gazette on 25 July 1933: Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring.
The Virginia Sterilization Act of 1924 was a U.S. state law in Virginia for the sterilization of institutionalized persons "afflicted with hereditary forms of insanity that are recurrent, idiocy, imbe
Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring
…dominant figures in the racial hygiene movement: Ernst Rüdin, Arthur Gütt and the lawyer Falk Ruttke. While it has close resemblances with the American Model Eugenical Sterilization Law developed by Harry H. Laughlin, the law itself was initially drafted in 1932, at the end of the Weimar Republic period, by a committee led by the…
Southwestern Lunatic Asylum in Marion, Virginia. Renamed Southwestern State Hospital and finally renamed the Southwestern Virginia Mental Health Institute. Built May 17, 1887.
First opened in 1910 as the Virginia State Epileptic Colony