Eugenics and the Nazis

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several decades. Richard J. Herrnstein, a Harvard psychologist, and Charles Murray, a political scientist, concluded in the book “The Bell Curve” that the high maternity rate of low income groups is fostering “dysgenics” or the increase of inadequate genes in the population.(Black) In eugenics the followers believe that zygote must be looked upon as belonging to society and not solely to the person who carries it. One could say that Eugenics gave Nazis scientific justification for the Holocaust. Where the got there inspiration is even more of a surprise.
Eugenics first took root in England and America. (History) Sterilization programs were first documented in the US. (History) One medical institution in Lincoln Illinois. went so far as to feed the incoming patients milk from tubercular cows believing eugenically strong individuals would be immune. (Kelves)A 30-40% annual death rate resulted in Lincoln in the years following the start of that program. (Kelves) There is no doubt ...

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The roots of the Nazi eugenics program started before the Nazis were in power. After WWI the economy and population of Germany was decimated. The ruling government, the Weimar Republic which ruled from 1919 to 1933 looked at popular eugenic theories to help restore and improve the health and physical well being of its inhabitants. ("High School Bioethics Curriculum Project") The government quickly drafted plans for the sterilizations of individuals with hereditary illnesses. A year later the National Socialist Nazis took control of Germany a year later. ("High School Bioethics Curriculum Project") July 14, 1933 a law known as “Gesetz zur Verhütung erbkranken Nachwuchses ...

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