Guide
of racial science and the science of heredity, of fostering congenitally sound progeny of Family Science.
For the medium level by
Prof.Dr. med.et phil.O.STECHE 1937
Publishing house of Quelle and Meyer in Leipzig
[Pages 38-40]
The fight against degeneration:
It is a great fortune, that the leadership of our people has not only recognized the danger of the situation, but also has made a strict decision to combat it. He who wants to live as a member of our community, is not only obliged to put all his efforts at the service of this community, but also must make sacrifices. He must tolerate encroachments on his personal rights, if the need of the community demands it. It is one of the first duties of the community, to see to it, that the increase of those, inferior by heredity, is stopped. At our stage of culture, we cannot think of it of course, to expect them from our community, but we can easily see to it, that they are not propagated and give their inferior heritage to new generations. To prevent this, the law exists for the prevention of hereditarily unsound progeny. This gives the right to the national community, to exclude those men and women from propagation with whom it can be expected with certainty through knowledge of the heredity laws, that their offspring will to a great extent be physically, mentally and spiritually inferior.
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Fig. 27, Costs of welfare in
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comparison to average earnings
[Page 39]. The daily cost of a Criminals = 3.50 M
Deaf mute = 6.00 M The daily earnings of a
Cripple = 6.00 M Laborer = 2.50 M
Reform School Employee = 3.50 M
inmate = 4.85 M Civil Servant = 4.00 M
Mentally Sick = 4.50 M
Only comparatively simple medical intervention is necessary for that, which will not effect the well being and ability to live of the person at all. The law enumerates a whole series of hereditary diseases, in case of which the prevention of procreation can be carried out. Into this class belong in the first place serious physical disabilities such as hereditary blindness and deaf-muteness, but also a series of serious mental diseases, especially hereditary feeblemindness and idiocy. Of course, in every case, before such intervention is ordered by the state, all circumstances must be thoroughly examined by a court, appointed especially for the purpose.
These measures, of course, cannot show their results immediately, but in the course of many years, the health of the heritage of our people will improve, and the tremendous burden, which is placed today on the community by taking care of the inferior ones, will decrease more and more. Actually, today it is so, that the state spends more for the existence of these actually worthless compatriots, than the salary for the work of a healthy man, with which he must bring up a healthy family. (See Figure Nr. 27)
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Racial hygiene:
When choosing a mate, for marriage, we also take the obligation, to keep in mind the racial composition of our national substance. The six basic races, which we have learned to know previously, are so mixed in our national community and their participation in the construction of our culture cannot easily be separated, that we cannot easdy put them against each other in strong contrast. We have previously seen that the Nordic race distinguishes itself by a special leadership talent and that it has certainly played an outstanding part in the development of our national substance. The result is that today, we have relatively many Nordic people among the leading strata of our people. If, therefore, an increase of these strata is helped along, the share of Nordic blood within, it will become a greater one. But it is very essential, that we avoid, as best as we can, the penetration of elements of alien races into our national body.
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Extracts from a book on racial science, on the screening of the "hereditarily unsound," their burden on society, the prevention of their reproduction, and the need to increase the "Nordic race" in the population
Authors
Otto Steche (Prof. Dr. med.; author)
Otto Steche
- Additional details not yet available.
Date: 1937
Literal Title: Guide of racial science and the science of heredity, of fostering congentitally sound progeny of Family Science. . . . The fight against degeneration
Total Pages: 2
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-2442
Citation: IMT (page 255)
HLSL Item No.: 450300
Trial Issues
Conspiracy (and Common plan, in IMT) (IMT, NMT 1, 3, 4) Education, propaganda, and youth programs (IMT) IMT count 1: common plan or conspiracy (IMT) Nazi regime (rise, consolidation, economic control, and militarization) (I… Racial selection and discrimination (theory, screening, relocations, kidna…