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School?
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It was a long while ago. I don't...
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Perhaps you were not able to keep up
with the others...
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and that's why you did not continue?
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Objection, Your Honor.
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The witness' school record has nothing
to do with what happened to him.
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It was the task of the Health Court
to sterilize the mentally incompetent.
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Objection overruled.
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Were you able, or were you not able...
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to keep up with the others?
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I would like to refer to the efficiency report
made at the school about Mr. Petersen.
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He failed to be promoted, and
was placed in a class of backward children.
1:04:02
You say your parents died of natural causes.
1:04:06
Yes.
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Would you describe in detail
the illness your mother died of?
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She died of her heart.
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In the last stages of her illness,
did your mother...
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show any mental peculiarities?
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No.
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In the decision that came down
from Stuttgart...
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it is stated that your mother suffered
from hereditary feeble-mindedness.
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That is not true!
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Can you give us some clarification...
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as to how the Hereditary Health Court
in Stuttgart arrived at that decision?
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It was just something they said
to put me on the operating table.
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- It was just something they said?
- Yes.
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Mr. Petersen, there was a simple test...
1:04:57
that the Health Court used to ask
in all cases of mental incompetence.