Forced sterilizations and patient murders – Mainkofen during the Nazi regime.

During the Nazi regime, people were primarily evaluated based on their economic utility to the «national community.» Individuals with mental illnesses, intellectual disabilities, or those labeled as «asocial» were classified by Nazi eugenicists as «hereditarily ill,» forcibly sterilized, gassed in extermination centers, lethally injected in so-called healing and nursing homes, or starved to death. In an interview, the former commercial director of the Mainkofen District Hospital in Deggendorf, Lower Bavaria, answers questions about how the Nazi murder program was implemented in the clinic he managed.