War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race

[Warsai]

This is a very interesting book that deals with a very interesting topic: eugenics. When most people hear this word they would think of the genocide of Jews by the Nazis during World War II. But what most people don't know that there was a eugenics movement in America during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This eugenics movement was created to sterilize uneducated, poor, or physically impaired people belonging to minorities so that supposedly defective genes would not be passed on. The movement was funded by some of America's richest people at the time, people like Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Alexander Graham Bell. The victims of eugenics were poor white people from New England to California, immigrants from across Europe, Blacks, Jews, Mexicans, Native Americans, epileptics, alcoholics, petty criminals, the mentally ill and anyone else who did not resemble the blond and blue-eyed Nordic ideal the eugenics movement glorified. Educators eventually exchanged the idea of eugenics with other scientists worldwide, and it eventually caught Hitler's eye. This book not only reveals information on the eugenics movement within America, but also reveals connections between America's richest aristocrats and Hitler. This is a must read for everyone.

[gmc]

Have a look at swedish history. They also had an active eugenics programme.

These kind of debates were world wide, the more you look in to it the more startling it becomes.