This 1936 Nazi propaganda slide presents the Nazi interpretation of crime as well as the alleged racial and social threat posed by severe alcoholism. It translates to:
“The Terrible Legacy of a Female Drunkard. In 83 years, [she will have] 894 descendants [including] 40 poorhouse residents, 67 hardened criminals, 7 murderers, 181 prostitutes, and 142 beggars. [A total of] 437 (about 50 percent) asocials costing 5 million Reichsmarks.”
The Nazi regime’s Hereditary Health Law of July 14, 1933, mandated the forced sterilization of people suffering from severe alcoholism. The Nazis also wrongfully imprisoned and forcibly sterilized people they considered “professional criminals” and “asocials.”
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