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Max Pearson presents a collection of this week鈥檚 Witness History episodes from the 大象传媒 World Service.

We hear about the people with disabilities who were sterilised in Germany following an order in 1933, passed by the then Chancellor Adolf Hitler.

Also, we find out about the first man to descend into the 鈥淕ates of Hell鈥�, the Darvaza Crater, in Turkmenistan.

Plus the story behind the vuvuzela which was dubbed the 鈥渨orld鈥檚 most annoying instrument鈥�.

Contributors:
Helga Gross who was sterilised in Germany as part of the Nazis鈥� eugenics order. This is an archive interview from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Dr Susanne Klausen, Julia Gregg Brill Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the Pennsylvania State University.
Campaigner Emma Bonino who fought for legal abortion in Italy.
Explorer George Kourounis who was the first person to descend into the Darvaza Crater, in Turkmenistan.
Paramedic Daniel Ouma who helped people injured in the Westgate Mall terror attack, in Nairobi, in Kenya, in 2013.
Freddie 'Saddam' Maake who claims to have invented the vuvuzela.

(Photo: Adolf Hitler. Credit: Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)