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The Nazi connection : eugenics, American racism, and German national socialism
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The Nazi connection : eugenics, American racism, and German national socialism

Auteur : Stefan Kühl
Éditeur : New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 1994.
Édition/format :   Livre : AnglaisVoir toutes les éditions et les formats
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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  Lire la suite...
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Format physique additionnel : Online version:
Kühl, Stefan.
Nazi connection.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1994
(OCoLC)622789861
Format : Livre
Tous les auteurs / collaborateurs : Stefan Kühl
ISBN : 0195082605 9780195082609 0195149785 9780195149784
Numéro OCLC : 27935541
Description : xviii, 166 p ; 24 cm.
Contenu : Introduction --
1: New scientific racism --
2: German-American relations within the international eugenics movement before 1933 --
3: International context: the support of Nazi race policy through the international eugenics movement --
4: From disciple to model: sterilization in Germany and the United States --
5: American eugenicists in Nazi Germany --
6: Science and racism: the influence of different concepts of race on attitudes toward Nazi race policies --
8: Influence of Nazi race policies on the transformation of eugenics in the United States --
8: Reception and function of American support in Nazi Germany --
9: Temporary end of the relations between German and American eugenicists --
Conclusion --
Notes --
References --
Index.
Responsabilité : Stefan Kühl.
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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.

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