The Nazi government's Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases references U.S. sterilization state laws, beginning with a 1907 law in Indiana that legalized forced vasectomies for "rapists, criminals, idiots and imbeciles" and primarily impacted poor white gay men seen as "sexually deviant." The Third Reich creates their own law to sterilize approximately 400,000 children and adults–predominantly Jewish people and others seen as "undesirables."