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Questionnaires on heredity and life history
The Nazis were keen to collect information about as many people and their families as possible. Standardised questionnaires were used for this purpose. With the questionnaires Nazi physicians wanted to establish which categories of people committed crime and to identify the characteristics that the children of those surveyed would develop. Behavioural traits were deemed hereditary. These questionnaires provided the basis to admit people to concentration camps or to subject them to forced sterilisation.