Before killing the mentally ill was accepted, I need to mention here that sterelizing was a precautionary measure so we could not breed...too risky. A mentally ill child could be conceived. We are talking forced sterelization. It wasn't up to the patient. Oh, almost forgot. Someone decided that this population would be great to determine the fastest most cost efficent way to do this. This involved shortcuts like not having a clean germ free environment (took too long). Why clean the tools? Waste of time (yes there were many deaths as a result and antibiotics, well there was hardly enough for the soldiers. And then, they even tried non surgical procedures which were even faster. One method was chemical castration using all different types of caustic toxic chemicals. Most got sick and died. Then some doctor came up with killing the reproductive organs with massive amounts of radiation. This would burn the ovaries and testies until they were no longer viable. CONTINUED