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Hitler’s Eugenics Program and What American Source He Used to Form His Opinion
Madison Grant’s “The Passing of the Great Race” created many of Hitler’s ideas and opinions of eugenics and formed the basis for a lot of his theories regarding the Jewish people and those of “inferior race”. While in prison he studied this book in depth and even added many of the ideas extolled in the book about the superiority of the Nordic race and the inferiority of everyone else to his book “Mein Kampf”.
Eugenics, according to Dictionary.com consists of thinking that improving the human race by encouraging “desirable individuals with the right genetic and physical characteristics” to marry each other and procreate as much as possible to help purify the genetic pool.
One of the more important quotes in the book, “The cross between a white man and an Indian is an Indian; the cross between a white man and a negro is a negro… When it becomes thoroughly understood that the children of mixed marriages between contrasted races belong to the lower type, the importance of transmitting in unimpaired purity the blood inheritance of ages will be appreciated at its full value” seems like something taken straight out of “Mein Kampf,” but it’s not.
This emphasizes one of the many insidious forms that Eugenics has created and promoted within modern society and is…
