Erbgesundheitsgericht Berlin (A Rep. 356)

Identifier
irn86420
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2014.216
  • RG-14.109M
Dates
1 Jan 1934 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn86420

Extent and Medium

177 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm

digital images,

Creator(s)

  • Erbgesundheitsgerichte

Biographical History

The Erbgesundheitsgerichte were in the German Reich by the Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring introduced from July 14, 1933. They decided to outwardly quite shaped process on forced sterilizations mentally and physically disabled people, patients of psychiatric hospitals and nursing homes as well as alcoholics and thus were tool for the enforcement of Nazi racial hygiene that belittled the man a mere object of state power of disposal until May 1945. due to the decisions of Erbgesundheitsgerichte about 350,000 people were forcibly sterilized [Wikipedia]

Archival History

Landesarchiv Berlin

Acquisition

Source of acquisition is the Landesarchiv Berlin, Germany. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in November 2014.

Scope and Content

This collection contains materials on forced sterilization, euthanasia, and racial research. It documents the racial hygiene administration and organization prior to the implementation of the T4 program.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Landesarchiv Berlin

Subjects

  • Euthanasia--Germany--Berlin--History.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Germany.
  • Berlin (Germany)
  • People with disabilities--Germany--History.
  • Heredity, Human--Research--Germany--Berlin--History--20th century.
  • Eugenics--Germany--History--20th century.
  • Medical ethics--Moral and ethical aspects.
  • Human Genome Project--Moral and ethical aspects.
  • Human experimentation in medicine--Germany--Berlin--History--20th century.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--History--20th century.
  • National socialism and medicine--Germany--Beriln.
  • Involuntary sterilization--Law and legislation--Germany--Berlin--History--20th century.

Genre

  • Document
This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

Copies

  • Landesarchiv Berlin

    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Landesarchiv Berlin