The Dangers of White Supremacy
Nazi Sterilization and Its Mixed-Race Adolescent Victims
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11033201 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Weindling (0000-0003-2908-0430, Paul Weindling is research professor in history of medicine at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, England. He co-directs research for the Max Planck Society’s provenance project on unethical sources of brain tissue under National Socialism., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 112 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 248-254 |
| Publication date | 2022-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048 |
| Publisher | American Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2105/ajph.2021.306593 |
| PMID | 35080945 |
| OpenAlex | W4210248441 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Mixed-race African German and Vietnamese German children were born around 1921, when troops drawn from the French colonial empire occupied the Rhineland. These children were forcibly sterilized in 1937. Racial anthropologists had denounced them as “Rhineland Bastards,” collected details on them, and persuaded the Nazi public health authorities to sterilize 385 of them. One of the adolescents later gave public interviews about his experiences. Apart from Hans Hauck, very few are known by name, and little is known about how their sterilization affected their lives. None of the 385 received compensation from the German state, either as victims of coerced sterilization or as victims of Nazi medical research. The concerned human geneticists went unprosecuted. (Am J Public Health. 2022;112(2):248–254. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306593 )
Colonialism · Eugenics · German · Nazi Germany · Nazism · Poison control · Public health · Sterilization (economics) · Vietnamese · European history and politics · Medical History and Research · Race, Genetics, and Society
| Citations per year | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |