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Forced Sterilization: A Form of Nazi Persecution

Forced sterilization was a key form of Nazi persecution and a tool of Nazi genocide. Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazi German regime forcibly sterilized hundreds of thousands of people. The Nazis considered these people to be racially inferior or biologically flawed. Their goal was to prevent them from passing along their supposedly inferior racial or genetic traits to future generations.