Zur Genese des Gesetzes zur Verhütung erbkranken Nachwuchses

Hitler himself, according to the geneticist Fritz Lenz, read Lenz's authoritative textbook on eugenics2 while he was writing Mein Kampf in jail, a book that would later become one of the basic documents of his race policy. Ernst Rüdin, on the other hand, director of the Munich National Center for Psychiatric Research, had already tailored his research methodology to achieve practical results that would maximize the numbers falling under a sterilization law.