"In the same way as the state demands the death of its best men as soldiers, it is entitled to order the death of the condemned in its battle against epidemics and diseases. No antique sacrifices to gods and demons are demanded any longer, only a well considered expiation as a help for the community and indeed exclusively in its interest."
— Eugenics

January 1, 1970

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Trials of war criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law no. 10, Nuremberg, October 1946-April, 1949, Volume 1, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1949, p. 989. (Jonathan P. Spiro notes that "The lawyer for Dr. Karl Brandt similarly (and repeatedly) argued that the life of the individual was expendable if it helped ensure the continued existence of the community....And in words that were remarkably similar to those of Oliver Wendell Holmes in Buck v. Bell, justifie