The Horrifying American Roots of
Nazi Eugenics
By Edwin Black
Mr.
Black is the author of IBM and the
Holocaust and the just released War Against
the Weak: Eugenics and America s
Campaign to Create a Master Race, from
which the following article is drawn....
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The Horrifying American Roots of
Nazi Eugenics
By Edwin Black
Mr.
Black is the author of IBM and the
Holocaust and the just released War Against
the Weak: Eugenics and America s
Campaign to Create a Master Race, from
which the following article is drawn.
Hitler and his henchmen victimized an
entire continent and exterminated millions
in his quest for a co-called "Master Race.
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But the concept of a white, blond-haired,
blue-eyed master Nordic race didn t
originate with Hitler.
The idea was created
in the United States, and cultivated in
California, decades before Hitler came to
power.
California eugenicists played an
important, although little known, role in the
American eugenics movement s campaign
for ethnic cleansing.
Eugenics was the racist pseudoscience
determined to wipe away all human beings
deemed "unfit," preserving only those who
conformed to a Nordic stereotype.
Elements
of the philosophy were enshrined as
national policy by forced sterilization and
segregation laws, a
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