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The Nazi connection :

0195082605

0195149785

9780195082609

9780195149784

b534522

The Nazi connection :

[Book]

eugenics, American racism, and German national socialism /

Stefan Kühl

New York, NY :

Oxford University Press,

1994

xviii, 166 pages ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-157) and index

The "new" scientific racism -- German-American relations within the international eugenics movement before 1933 -- The international context : the support of Nazi race policy through the international eugenics movement -- From disciple to model : sterilization in Germany and the United States -- American eugenicists in Nazi Germany -- Science and racism : the influence of different concepts of race on attitudes toward Nazi race policies -- The influence of Nazi race policies on the transformation of eugenics in the United States -- The reception and function of American support in Nazi Germany -- The temporary end of the relations between German and American eugenicists

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When Hitler published Mein Kampf in 1924, he held up a foreign law as a model for his program of racial purification: The U.S. Immigration Restriction Act, which prohibited the immigration of those with hereditary illnesses and entire ethnic groups. When the Nazis took power in 1933, they installed a program of eugenics - the attempted "improvement" of the population through forced sterilization and marriage controls - that consciously drew on the U.S. example. By then, many American states had long had compulsory sterilization laws for "defectives," upheld by the Supreme Court in 1927. Small wonder that the Nazi laws led one eugenics activist in Virginia to complain, "The Germans are beating us at our own game." In The Nazi Connection, Stefan Kuhl uncovers the ties between the American eugenics movement and the Nazi program of racial hygiene, showing that many American scientists actively supported Hitler's policies. After introducing us to the recently resurgent problem of scientific racism, Kuhl carefully recounts the history of the eugenics movement, both in the United States and internationally, demonstrating how widely the idea of sterilization as a genetic control had become accepted by the early twentieth century. From the first, American eugenicists led the way with radical ideas. Their influence led to sterilization laws in dozens of states - laws which were studied carefully by the German racial hygienists. With the rise of Hitler, the Germans enacted compulsory sterilization laws partly based on the U.S. experience, and American eugenicists took pride in their influence on Nazi policies. Kuhl recreates astonishing scenes of American eugenicists traveling to Germany to study the new laws, publishing scholarly articles lionizing the Nazi eugenics program, and proudly comparing personal notes from Hitler thanking them for their books. Even after the outbreak of war, he writes, the American eugenicists frowned upon Hitler's totalitarian government, but not his sterilization laws. By 1945, when the murderous nature of the Nazi government was made perfectly clear, the American eugenicists sought to downplay the close connections between themselves and the German program. Some of them, in fact, had sought to distance themselves from Hitler even before the war. But Stefan Kuhl's deeply documented book provides a devastating indictment of the influence - and aid - provided by American scientists for the most comprehensive attempt to enforce racial purity in world history

Nazi connection.

Eugenics-- Government policy-- Germany-- History-- 20th century

Eugenics-- United States-- History-- 20th century

National socialism

Racism-- Germany-- History-- 20th century

Eugenics-- Germany-- history

Eugenics-- United States-- history

History, 20th Century-- Germany

History, 20th Century-- United States

National Socialism-- Germany-- history

National Socialism-- United States-- history

Prejudice-- Germany

Prejudice-- United States

Sterilization, Involuntary-- Germany-- history

Sterilization, Involuntary-- United States-- history

Kühl, Stefan

Mazal Holocaust Collection.

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