Backstory: 'Population Control' and 'Information Control' Are Part of the Same Package A fortnightly column from The Wire's ombudsperson. Illustration: The Wire gleichschaltung, or the complete ideological packaging of political, social and lived experience. So while, on the one hand, mores of social behaviour, including sterilisation, were forcibly prescribed â by the end of Third Reich in 1945 an estimated 360,000 had been sterilised, among whom were those deemed genetically inferior or regarded as âpolitical enemies of the stateâ â on the other, there was a conc...