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The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism

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...

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IBM and the Holocaust

In February 2001, Edwin Black, son of Polish survivors from concentration camps, published a book "IBM and the Holocaust" in which he reveals the commercial ...

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Eugenics is not dead

Eugenics is the study of methods to improve the human race by controlling reproduction. The word was coined in 1883 by Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin. Galton believed that the proper...

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"Every 15 seconds, $100 of each taxpayer's money goes to support the mentally and morally defective. The threat to American society, according to eugencists, was clear: the dangerous and defective were reproducing too quickly"58

The American Eugenics Society

"Every 15 seconds, $100 of each taxpayer's money goes to support the mentally and morally defective. The threat to American society, according to eugencists, was clear: the dangerous and defective were...

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African Woman Ecologist and Nobel Peace laureate Wangari Maathai claims HIV/AIDS deliberately created

Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, today reiterated her claim that the AIDS virus was a deliberately created biological agent. "Some say that AIDS came...

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