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1 online resource (185 pages)
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9780195348781
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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 of 1924, 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 K?hl 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, K?hl 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, the American eugenicists led the way with radical ideas. Their influence led to sterilization laws in dozens of states--laws which were studied, and praised, 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 eugenists took pride in their influence on Nazi policies. K?hl recreates astonishing scenes of American eugenicists travelling 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
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The "New" Scientific Racism -- 2. German-American Relations within the International Eugenics Movement before 1933 -- 3. The 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 -- 7. The Influence of Nazi Race Policies on the Transformation of Eugenics in the United States -- 8. The Reception and Function of American Support in Nazi Germany -- 9. The Temporary End of the Relations between German and American Eugenicists -- 10. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
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ISBN 9780195149784
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Kühl, Stefan, 1966 - The Nazi Connection New York [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 2002 ISBN 0195149785
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195149784
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English
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History
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