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Old 11-22-2007, 02:40 PM
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and can lead to some very troublesome societys such as NAZI Germany.
What do you mean by that, Dustin?
Euginics came to Germany from America actually.

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Was Nazi eugenics created in the US?

Reviewed by Garland E. Allen1
1Garland E. Allen is at the Department of Biology, Washington University, St Louis, USA.

War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create A Master Race by Edwin Black
Four Walls Eight Windows , New York, NY, USA
550 pages, $27/£15
ISBN 1568582587


http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/art...?artid=1299061





The Eugenics Movement in the U.S.

Many people are unaware that Hitler's extermination policies began with the large-scale elimination of people with disabilities. Proponents of physician- assisted suicide are offended when allusions are made to this piece of disability history in the course of debate over the so-called "right to die". The fact is that Hitler stole most of his ideas on eugenics from publications originating in the USA.

Popularity of eugenics and social Darwinism continued in the USA during WWII. In 1942, the American Journal of Psychiatry published a "debate" on the ethics of killing children with severe disabilities. The following was written by Foster Kennedy:

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http://www.notdeadyet.org/eughis.html






http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics
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