STERILISATION IN GERMANY
❖ MANY OPERATIONS RESIDENT FOREIGNERS SUBJECT TO LAW (Received February 5, 11.3 p.m.) LONDON, February 5. The Berlin correspondent of the •'Daily Telegraph" says that the legal journal announces that between 130,000 and 200,000 sterilisations were ordered in 1934. in most cases because of inherited feeble-minded-ness. The Supreme Court has decided that resident foreigners may be sentenced to sterilisation if they are a danger to the public. That they are liable to deportation will not prevent the performance of the operation. •MORE SOLE POWERS FOR HERR HITLER BERLIN, February 4. A new decree reserves to Herr Hitler the right to commute death sentences and also to pardon members of the Navy and Army whose sentences exceed three months.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21391, 6 February 1935, Page 11
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