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Stammlager, where there was an experimental station run by 
an endocrinologist named Clauberg. I was told when I arrived 
in the camp never to disclose that I was an endocrinologist, 
otherwise I believe I would have been put into Clauberg’s 
team. As everybody now knows, huge experiments were per- 
formed there on the sterilization of both men and women. 
Once you have seen with your own eyes where those problems 
can lead, you are always very cautious, even when you hear 
about the very beginnings of this type of experiment. 
Even today there is still a large gap between what has been 
done in the best experimental series on animals and what has 
been done or might be done on human beings in view of the 
future. This brings us to the most general question of all, 
prognostication. What we are doing here is making prognosti- 
cations for the human community. And a question which will 
be raised many times in our discussions is, what is more import- 
ant—the individual or the community? If you answer ‘‘the 
individual”’, you take a different path in the present and in the 
future, from the one you would take if your answer is “‘the 
community”’. 
Brock: I should like to hear something from Dr. Pincus about 
the political acceptability of chemical contraception. It seems 
to me that in underdeveloped countries the political objections 
to reduction of population are possibly as important as any 
religious objection. 
Pincus: Members of the Eugenics Society in Greece, who 
asked me to lecture on this subject there, were most interested, 
but thought this work irrelevant to the problems in Greece, 
where they felt the population should increase to withstand the 
encroachment of its Communist neighbours. I am sure that 
everyone here has heard similar comments. In India, on the 
contrary, it is recognized that birth control is important for 
the well-being both of the family and of the community. 
Let me emphasize that in India and in the other countries of 
the Far East that I have visited, only voluntary control has been 
envisaged. Voluntary control can only be exercised by adequate 
education and motivation; and the problem of adequacy of 
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