Nazi eugenics

Eugenics is choosing traits in order to make all of society “better”. This practice has a terrible reputation because it was practiced by the Nazi’s in order to create a master race. Hence, why they exterminated those with mental and physical incapacities. It was also encouraged for those who worked within the regime to make sure their partners had good genetics with a healthy family history. According to the Deutsche Welle, thousands of people were forcibly sterilized because their genetics…

Genetics has typically been view as a benefit to society in the aspect of eugenics. Eugenics is defined by Francis Galton as “the study of agencies under social control that improves or impairs the qualities of future generations either physically or mentally”. The statement “improves or impairs” directly correlates to positive and negative eugenics. In the past positive eugenics has been seen through Better Baby and Fitter Familie for Future Fireside contests. These contests were used to…

T4 Program Intro During WW2 Hitler did not only target the Jews but other groups as well. Nazis would target mentally and physically disabled patients living in germany and give them a good death (“Euthanasia Program”). The T4 program was Hitler 's way of eliminating the defects in the German race . Hitler and his followers would see the program as a way of cleansing the German race (“T-4 Origins,). The T4 Program, was the genesis for a lot of what would happen during the final solution; people…

Nazi Medicine is, or at least thought to be, the mass practice of racial hygiene coupled with the phenomenon in which the Nazi Party performed thousands of medical experiments on non-consenting individuals during the Holocaust. Though some of these practices and experiments had legitimate purposes, most were fueled by prejudiced values. These practices were indeed some of the greatest disgraces in human history, but the widely-held belief that they were unprecedented or completely unique is…

One of the main causes of World War II can be traced back to the growth of eugenics on an intercontinental basis and movements based around the concept of a “pure” race, stemming from Sir Francis Galton’s theories on the various ways, “the English race might most easily be improved.” The newly found ideas of selectivity in the breeding of human beings is easily one of the most consequential breaks in the “monotony” that was the scientific community at that time. It provided a new perspective for…

article, I knew the Nazis were a group of scientist, but for them to experiment on humans to find a perfect human offspring, it is just pure evil the way they handle their experiment. I just did not realized that the concept of having the “the white, blonde hair, and blue eyes human” were actually created by the United States. The idea came mostly in California and it created a American eugenics movement campaign for ethnic cleansing. California was the epicenter of the American eugenics…

strong nation. The Nazis wanted women to believe that having very many children was a very important job. In fact, it was seen to be just as important as the men fighting on the battlefield. Young German girls were also seen to be very important because they would become mothers in the future. There was an expectation that women were to make their children and husband a top priority, even above themselves. In order to promote the idea that motherhood is of the upmost importance, the Nazis had…

In reading “Heroism and history”, I learned a lot about how why war occurs and why we talk about it so much. For example the author quotes,“It forced upon the reluctant sensibility of europe a recognition that the greeks, the romans and ourselves shared a common parentage with baboons, gorillas and chimpanzees.” The author here is trying to explain that there is a relationship between humans and animals in that they share common characteristics. In the text he talked about how one of the…

thought to be the father of social Darwinism. He initially came up with the term survival of the fittest. Eugenics and social Darwinism were both similar since eugenics originated from social Darwinism of the late nineteenth century. "Eugenics" was thought of in 1883 by the English researcher Francis Galton, who was the cousin of Charles Darwin. Galton characterized the expression "eugenics” as the theory of hereditary improvement of the human race by selective breeding. The first state to…

Adolf Hitler, like many hellish dictators, was a natural born leader, exhibiting qualities like manipulative public speaking skills. “Almost from the moment Adolf Hitler stepped behind the crude lectern placed atop the head table the audience was ‘electrified’” (Toland). It was then that people realized he would have a paramount impact on Germany in the future. Hitler fed the people what they wished to consume as the crescendo to power began to branch. The stock market crash in the United States…