People who were targeted and mistreated by the Nazis for being allegedly ‘hereditarily unhealthy’ were late in making their voices heard. One such victim was Klara Nowak (1922-2003), who co-founded the Association of Victims of ‘Euthanasia’ and Forced Sterilisation in 1987. She was forcibly sterilised in 1940 during a short, unjustified stay in a psychiatric ward. The West German Bundestag finally designated such measures as ‘acts of Nazi injustice’ in 1988.
