“Moved by the understanding that purity of German blood is the essential condition for the continued existence of the German people, and inspired by the inflexible determination to ensure the existence of the German nation for all time...”
-Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor of September 15, 1935
Germany also adopted eugenics, promoting it throughout WWII. However, its methods of achieving an "Aryan" race were far more drastic than those in America. |
Eugenics loses favor in the U.S., but gains support in Nazi Germany , James Watson. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory,
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"...your [Americas] work has played a powerful part in shaping the opinions of the group of intellectuals who are behind Hitler in this epoch-making program. Everywhere I sensed that their opinions have been tremendously stimulated by American thought… you have really jolted into action a great government of 60 million people."
- C. M. Goethe, 1934
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“For a long time, the task for us Germans will be the most highly intensified integration of all possibilities.... so far, preventing these defective people from reproducing has not even been seriously attempted. . . .” |
"Everything will end in catastrophe if natural selection is altered to the point that gifted people are overwhelmed by billions of morons." |
"... I was trembling. My arms and my legs were swollen, huge size. Mengele and Dr. Konig and three other doctors came in the next morning. They looked at my fever chart, and Dr. Mengele said, laughingly, "to bad, she is so young. She has only two weeks to live..." |
Mengele was especially interested in eye conditions such as heterochromia.
"Once, I witnessed a stomach operation—Mengele was removing pieces from the stomach, but without any anesthetic. Another time, it was a heart that was removed, again, without anesthesia. It was horrifying. |