Eugenics is a pseudo-science that was created in Long Island, New York but adopted by the German government after the loss of World War I. Eugenics or "racial hygiene" (euphemistic term), spread the idea that by keeping the "unfit" alive to reproduce was only a waste of money. Modern medicine interfered with natural selection or survival of the fittest. A concept created by Charles Darwin that applied to the animal and plant world. Soon the Nazi party included eugenics in their party platform. When the Nazi regime took power over Germany, of course they continued to use the science of Eugenics.
" Our starting point is not the individual, and we do not subscribe to the view that one should feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, or clothe the naked... our objectives are entirely different: We must have a healthy people in order to prevail in the world." - Joseph Goebbles (1938)
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