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Unlike the American movement, one publication and one society, the German Society for Racial Hygiene, represented all German eugenicists in the early 20th century. [129] [130] After 1945 some historians began to try to portray the U.S. eugenics movement as distinct and distant from Nazi eugenics. [131]
War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race is a 2003 book by historian and journalist Edwin Black.Overall, War Against the Weak shows how the eugenics movement was supported and promoted by a wide range of individuals, organizations, and corporations in the United States, and how this led to the forced sterilization and persecution of millions of people.
The early German eugenics movement was led by Wilhelm Schallmayer and Alfred Ploetz. [14] [15] Henry Friedlander wrote that although the German and American eugenics movements were similar, the German movement was more centralized and did not contain as many diverse ideas as the American movement. [15]
Former President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric recalls the eugenics movement and the influence it had on American life in the early 1900s, writes Paul Moses.
The Eugenics Record Office (ERO), located in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States, was a research institute that gathered biological and social information about the American population, serving as a center for eugenics and human heredity research from 1910 to 1939.
In 1933, when Adolf Hitler rose to power as Chancellor of Germany and established a zealous eugenics program, DeJarnette watched with interest and praised Nazi eugenics policy. In 1934, he begged the General Assembly to extend Virginia's sterilization law stating; "the Germans are beating us at our own game and are more progressive than we are."
In 1909 a eugenics law was passed in California allowing for state institutions to sterilize those deemed "unfit" or "feeble-minded". [12] The Asexualization Act authorized the involuntary sterilization of certain groups of people, including inmates of state hospitals, certain institutionalized people, life-sentenced prisoners, repeat offenders of certain sexual offenses, or simply repeat ...
The world’s largest human genetics group apologized for some of its founding members’ role in the American eugenics movement and The post Human genetics group apologizes for ‘findings ...