Compulsive sterilization continued long after Nazi Germany’s defeat.

Evidence

Genetical deficiency, manifested in crime and idiocy, became - following the scientists’ lobbying or advice - the legitimate reason for compulsory sterilization in the states of Indiana, New Jersey, and Iowa (where the state law covered “criminals, rapists, idiots, feeble-minded, imbeciles, lunatics, drunkards, drug fiends, epileptics, syphilitics, moral and sexual perverts, and diseased and degenerate persons”). Altogether 21 states of the USA enacted eugenic sterilization laws between 1907 and 1928 (Chorover 1979:42). Quite recently, after decades of silence and whitewashing, we have heard of the policy of compulsive sterilization conducted (by right-wing and left-wing governments alike) for many years (and well after the defeat of Nazi Germany) towards the “inferior,” “unreliable,” and otherwise undesirable categories of the population. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 419

Categorization

• QUESTION: Which countries and governments continued sterilization programs postwar? Bauman is vague here — worth pinning to specifics.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 419
• XREF: connects to: American eugenics served as a model for Nazi Germany — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 4293; Thirty-two states funded forced sterilization well into the twentieth century — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 161