Source C: A personal account Two Gestapo officers came to get us... They took us by car... [to the Department of Racial and Hereditary Welfare. They examined us and measured our skulls. It's hard to explain this to ordinary people. They measured our eyebrows, eye colour, noses. We were lucky we weren't euthanasia victims. We were only sterilised. It was all over in two hours We had to sign a paper saying we agreed not to marry people with Ger- man or half-German blood. And that we wouldn't have sexual relations with Germans ... It was depressing and offensive. I felt only half human. (Hans Hauck, aged 17, one of 400 children from the Rhineland who were sterilised because they were classified as being of 'mixed race') .). 1. Why did the Gestapo officers come to get the children and not ordinary policemen? 2. Why is the use of the word Welfare in Department Racial and Hereditary Welfare strange? Think of whose welfare they were considering? 3. Who were the ordinary people to whom the writer found the event difficult to describe? 4. Being sterilised is a humiliating and horrible experience. Why do you think the write says "we were sterilised?" 5. Continue the writer's explanation. "I felt only half human because....."
