Hereditary Health Courts
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Hereditary Health Courts were special Nazi-era tribunals in Germany that decided which individuals would be forcibly sterilized under eugenic policies targeting those deemed genetically "unfit."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hereditary Health Courts canonical | 1 |
| Hereditary Health Supreme Courts | 1 |
| Higher Hereditary Health Courts | 1 |
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Target entity: Hereditary Health Courts Context triple: [Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring, implementedBy, Hereditary Health Courts]
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Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring
The Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring was a 1933 Nazi eugenics statute that mandated the forced sterilization of hundreds of thousands of people deemed genetically "unfit," including those with disabilities and certain illnesses.
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Frontiers of Justice
Frontiers of Justice is a philosophical work by Martha Nussbaum that extends theories of justice to address the rights and moral standing of people with disabilities, non-human animals, and citizens of other nations.
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Protogeneia
Protogeneia is a figure in Greek mythology, traditionally regarded as the daughter of Deucalion and Pyrrha and associated with the earliest generations of humankind after the great flood.
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Pain Court
Pain Court is a small rural Francophone community in the municipality of Chatham-Kent in southwestern Ontario, Canada.
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The Judicature
The Judicature is the section of Pakistan’s 1973 Constitution that establishes the structure, powers, and functions of the country’s judicial system, including its superior courts.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Hereditary Health Courts Target entity description: Hereditary Health Courts were special Nazi-era tribunals in Germany that decided which individuals would be forcibly sterilized under eugenic policies targeting those deemed genetically "unfit."
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A.
Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring
The Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring was a 1933 Nazi eugenics statute that mandated the forced sterilization of hundreds of thousands of people deemed genetically "unfit," including those with disabilities and certain illnesses.
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B.
Frontiers of Justice
Frontiers of Justice is a philosophical work by Martha Nussbaum that extends theories of justice to address the rights and moral standing of people with disabilities, non-human animals, and citizens of other nations.
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C.
Protogeneia
Protogeneia is a figure in Greek mythology, traditionally regarded as the daughter of Deucalion and Pyrrha and associated with the earliest generations of humankind after the great flood.
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D.
Pain Court
Pain Court is a small rural Francophone community in the municipality of Chatham-Kent in southwestern Ontario, Canada.
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E.
The Judicature
The Judicature is the section of Pakistan’s 1973 Constitution that establishes the structure, powers, and functions of the country’s judicial system, including its superior courts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nazi tribunal
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eugenic institution ⓘ special court ⓘ |
| abolished | after 1945 ⓘ |
| activeDuring | Third Reich ⓘ |
| appealTo |
Hereditary Health Courts
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Higher Hereditary Health Courts
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| appliedInJurisdiction | Germany ⓘ |
| appliesPolicy |
forced sterilization
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racial hygiene ⓘ |
| composition |
jurist
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medical doctor ⓘ public health official ⓘ |
| consequenceOfDecision | involuntary sterilization surgery ⓘ |
| country | Nazi Germany ⓘ |
| decisionType |
rejection of sterilization petition
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sterilization order ⓘ |
| GermanName | Erbgesundheitsgerichte ⓘ |
| historicalAssessment | crime against humanity ⓘ |
| humanRightsImpact |
violation of bodily integrity
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violation of reproductive rights ⓘ |
| ideology |
Nazi racial ideology
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eugenics ⓘ |
| inception | 1934 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | German ⓘ |
| legalBasis |
Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring
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surface form:
Gesetz zur Verhütung erbkranken Nachwuchses
Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring ⓘ |
| location | local courts in Germany ⓘ |
| mainFunction |
decide on compulsory sterilization cases
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enforce Nazi eugenic policy ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
pseudo-scientific use of genetics in legal decisions
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systematic targeting of marginalized groups ⓘ |
| partOf |
Nazi population policy
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Reich Health Office ⓘ
surface form:
Nazi public health system
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| procedure |
cases initiated by physicians
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hearings on sterilization petitions ⓘ |
| replacedBy | ordinary courts in postwar Germany ⓘ |
| subordinateTo |
Ministry of the Interior of Nazi Germany
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surface form:
Reich Ministry of the Interior
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| targetedCondition |
Huntington's chorea
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surface form:
Huntington’s chorea
congenital feeblemindedness ⓘ hereditary blindness ⓘ hereditary deafness ⓘ hereditary epilepsy ⓘ manic-depressive illness ⓘ schizophrenia ⓘ severe alcoholism ⓘ severe hereditary physical deformity ⓘ |
| targetedGroup |
people deemed hereditarily diseased
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people labeled genetically unfit ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Third Reich
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surface form:
Nazi era
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Subject: Hereditary Health Courts Description of subject: Hereditary Health Courts were special Nazi-era tribunals in Germany that decided which individuals would be forcibly sterilized under eugenic policies targeting those deemed genetically "unfit."
Referenced by (3)
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