Nazi eugenics and the year of the vuvuzela
We hear about Adolf Hitlerβs order to sterilise people with disabilities, the fight for legal abortion in Italy and how the sound of the vuvuzela dominated the 2010 World Cup.
Max Pearson presents a collection of this weekβs Witness History episodes from the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World Service.
We hear about the people with disabilities who were sterilised in Germany following an order in 1933, passed by the then Chancellor Adolf Hitler.
Also, we find out about the first man to descend into the βGates of Hellβ, the Darvaza Crater, in Turkmenistan.
Plus the story behind the vuvuzela which was dubbed the βworldβs most annoying instrumentβ.
Contributors:
Helga Gross who was sterilised in Germany as part of the Nazisβ eugenics order. This is an archive interview from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Dr Susanne Klausen, Julia Gregg Brill Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the Pennsylvania State University.
Campaigner Emma Bonino who fought for legal abortion in Italy.
Explorer George Kourounis who was the first person to descend into the Darvaza Crater, in Turkmenistan.
Paramedic Daniel Ouma who helped people injured in the Westgate Mall terror attack, in Nairobi, in Kenya, in 2013.
Freddie 'Saddam' Maake who claims to have invented the vuvuzela.
(Photo: Adolf Hitler. Credit: Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)
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