Medizinische Universität Graz Austria/Österreich - Forschungsportal - Medical University of Graz
Gewählte Publikation:
Czarnowski, G.
Hereditary and racial welfare (Erb- und Rassenpflege): The politics of sexuality and reproduction in Nazi Germany
SOC POLIT. 1997; 4(1): 114-135.
Doi: 10.1093/sp/4.1.114
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- Political control of sexuality and reproduction was crucial in National Socialism for producing a homogeneous society of same-race, genetically and physically healthy citizens. As a result, Nazi racial policies were directed not only at undesired minorities but, as the main argument of this paper, at the entire society-albeit with extremely diverging consequences for the men and women affected, depending on the different racial political aims. The consequences arising from bureaucratic classification and medical assessment are examined more closely in the cases of prohibitions on marriage and sexual relations, as well as with respect to abortion policies.