Eugenism under the Nazism

the Nazi Germany set up an official policy of eugenism , which included/understood the Programme Aktion T4 of Euthanasie as well as a Programme of forced sterilizations (more than 70.000 people were sterilized against their liking).

A policy Eugéniste particular suitable for the Germany Nazi. She consisted in

on the one hand supporting the fruitfulness of human considered as superiors. (Policy pro-nataliste, family support, pouponnières…)
in addition to prevent the reproduction of human genetically defective (handicapped people, people with reduced modility), those considered as inferiors or mentally nondesirable (mental criminals, arrears, etc…).

Germany sought to fight against the Avortement for the women considered as higher, whereas in same time the secret circular of 1934 authorized the abortion for the women having to be sterilized later on. The secret decree of 1940 was further while making compulsory the abortion for the “lower” women. 200 000 women were thus sterilized until in 1945.

Another example is that of the Homosexualité, considered by this mobility as a Maladie. Germany eugenist proposed with homosexual the choice between the voluntary Castration or the setting in Concentration camps. The Paragraphe 175 of the Penal code condemned homosexuality for a long time, but after the arrival of Hitler to the capacity, the living conditions of homosexual strongly worsen.

Before even the arrival of Hitler to the capacity, a majority of scientists and politicians were favorable to the eugenism. The law of 1934 bearing on eugenic sterilization was installation using the active participation of the doctor Gütt (doctor senior official), of Falk Ruttke (lawyer) and Ernst Rüdin (Swiss genetic psychiatrist). This law imposes obligatory sterilization for the patients reached of nine diseases considered as hereditary or congenital (blindness, blood alcohol content, schizophrenia…). It is estimated that 400 000 Germans were sterilized between 1934 and 1945. These sterilizations were the consensus object quasi in the German medical community.

Others practical, except legal framework, were used to eliminate the people undesirable, concentration camps for the alcoholics, criminals, delinquents, asocial various, castration of the sex criminals and homosexual, sterilization of the mongrel born German mothers and African fathers, northern children African, Indochinese of the occupying army Frenchwoman, extermination of the gypsies and the Jews.

The German eugenism and its alternatives Japanese woman, Swedish and American were not isolated acts of pervert, but on the contrary the result of a systematic policy of elimination, based on techniques “scientific”, and organized by the administration.

Hitler very strongly took as a starting point besides the American eugenism, in particular of " International The Jew. The world' S Foremost Problem" of Henri Ford in whom being presented in a very complete way racist theories, anti-semites and eugenists of the time. Such point, that in 1924, Hitler expressed its vision of the United States as follows: " there is a country today where one can see the beginnings of a better design of the citoyenneté".

It is also interesting to note that this form of eugenism had given ahead a concept already considered mythical: that of “Aryan Race”; the anthropologists of the time rather spoke about Scandinavian race or alpine race .

See too

Political racists of Third Reich
Expansionism of Japan Showa

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