No specific reference was made to Jews in the press summary of the new law for the sterilization of undesirables which went into effect under a government decree promulgated throughout Germany today.
The cabinet accepted the law yesterday. It provides for a purifying race process to be carried out through an operation that “is not dangerous.”
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