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How it [the Nazis' sterilization program] impinged on the individuals most directly affected can be seen in the case of what the Gestapo filed as 'number 357', a boy born in 1920 to a consensual union between a German mother and a French colonial soldier from Madagascar...A medical-anthropological examination conducted in 1935 concluded that the boy's facial features were un-German and probably negroid...
— Apr 19, 2025 04:20AM
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Brutalities carried out nearly a century ago, can still mess with you and your composure. Damn the Nazis and all they represented to eternity.
— Apr 05, 2025 04:01PM
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“...[T]he Gestapo tracked him down and he was arrested at midnight on 29 June 1937...[T]he branch commission in Cologne ordered that he should be sterilized; his mother, who had in the meantime married a German, gave her approval, as did her husband, and the boy was subjected to a vasectomy in the Evangelical Hospital in Cologne on 30 June, the day after his arrest.”
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“Girls as young as twelve were forced to undergotubal ligation. It is questionable whether many of them really knew what they were being subjected to, or why, or what the eventual consequences for their lives would be. The actual number of those treated in this way is not known but was probably in the region of 500. After this, however, nothing much more happened to them, unless they fell foul of the regime for some other reason. A substantial number of African-Germans, indeed, managed to make a living for themselves in circuses and fair grounds, or as extras in German movies set in the African colonies. The effects of their sterilization, physical and psychological, would remain with them for the rest of their lives.”
