The Nuremberg Laws and the Foundation of Nazi Scientific Experimentation 1941-45 Jennifer Hight

Thesis The Nuremberg Laws established a foundation for scientific human experimentation that the Nazi doctors performed on inmates in concentration camps from 1941 to 1945. Looking at: Laws for the Protection of Hereditary Health Reich Citizenship Laws

Laws of the Protection of Hereditary Health Authors: Bernhard Loesener and Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart Berlin: July 14, 1933 Article 1 (1.) Anyone who suffers from an inheritable disease may be surgically sterilized if, in the judgement of medical science, it could be expected that his descendants will suffer from serious inherited mental or physical defects.

Reich Citizenship Law Authors: Bernhard Loesener and Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart Berlin: September 15, 1935 Article 2 1. A citizen of the Reich is that subject only who is of German or kindred blood and who, through his conduct, shows that he is both desirous and fit to serve the German people and Reich faithfully.

Larger Significance T-4 Eugenics Program Issues with medical consent Citizenship used as a weapon