A historic investigation revealed that in the period 1933-1980, children with disabilities were placed in “special care” where they met with severe bad treatment and abuse. Over 5000 of them have been sterilized, while tens of thousands others have been subjected to violence and rape.
- In 1929, Denmark was the first country in Europe to introduce a law that allowed the state to sterilize citizens it considered “morally weak”. Everything from maladjusted youths and petty criminals to violent men, pedophiles and arsonists were placed in institutions and sterilized in the name of “racial hygiene”. More than 11,000 people got sterilized.
