In a chilling echo of Nazi Germany, how the British State rounded up and incarcerated 50,000 vulnerable young 'undesirables' in a drive for the 'perfect race'

David Barron was barely into his teens when he arrived at the Mid-Yorkshire Institution for the Mentally Defective in the late 1930s. He had been taken there by local council officials.

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