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Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics

In 1933 it was mandated that all children of african descent must be sterilized. Without parents permission Nazi officials began rounding up these children and taking them to hospitals to be sterilized, nearly 400 in total were sterilized. The program became known as Commission number Three.



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