January 1, 1934, Nazi Germany made active the Law for Genetically Diseased Offspring, which allows for the sterilization of anyone who suffered from a list of alleged "genetic" disorders. Many of these were not genetic. The provisions of the law stated that any person suffering from a hereditary diseases may be rendered incapable of procreation by surgical operation, because the person's offspring were highly probably to suffer from a hereditary defect.
Hereditary blindness, hereditary deafness, severe hereditary deformity, or severe alcoholism were all means for sterilization.
Over the course of the law, 400,000 people were sterilized against their will. About 4000 people died from the forced sterilizations.
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