![]() ![]() ![]() A eugenically inspired immigration act in 1924 kept out millions of Slavs, Jews, and others, who were subsequently killed by Nazi Germany's eugenically inspired genocide.īlack properly shows that eugenics was about more than just ethnicity and disability by discussing class, intelligence, crime, poverty, sexuality, alcoholism, and prostitution. Spurious scientific and medical work by eugenicists led to the forced sterilisation of 60 000 Americans and the banning of ethnically mixed marriages in many states. War Against the Weak continues the theme that the United States was a major contributor to Nazi genocide, but considerably overstates the case by shoehorning evidence into the argument that all European eugenics movements, including the German, were merely offshoots of American eugenics.Ĭreated in Britain in 1883 by Sir Francis Galton (Charles Darwin's cousin), eugenics became reality in the United States before the rise of Nazism. Four Walls Eight Windows, $27, pp 592 ISBN 1 56858 258 7 Rating: ★★īlack's earlier book, IBM and the Holocaust, traced the role of the information technology company IBM in creating Nazi Germany's punch-card technology for classifying victims of Nazi genocide. ![]()
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