sentences:  The economic strain of the Great Depression led Protestant charities and some members of the German medical establishment to advocate compulsory sterilization of the "incurable" mentally and physically handicapped, people the Nazis called "Lebensunwertes Leben" (life unworthy of life).On 14 July 1933, the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring ("Gesetz zur Verhütung erbkranken Nachwuchses"), the Sterilization Law, was passed.