Defects
Illnesses
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New laws also mandated the sterilization of 'Asocials', people Science indicated were likely to pass on inheritable physical defects and mental illnesses (and disproportionately affecting prostitutes, the long-term unemployed, and the Roma).
Source: Useful Notes / The Holocaust -
A real-life equivalent were the Come to Gawk sideshows, carnivals, and fairs in the 19th and early 20th century where people could come and watch people with special handicaps, illnesses, birth defects or just from some exotic culture.
Source: Grotesque Gallery
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