Francis Galton's Theory Of Eugenics In Nazi Germany
The German National Socialist Parties systematic execution of over 11 to possibly as many as 20 million individuals in the years 1939-1945 continually puzzles and frightens people to this day. Nonetheless, the Holocaust remains no different than any other historical or current movement. Universally all movements or events, including the Holocaust; begin with a root idea accompanied by differing environments to facilitate the physical realization of the idea. In 1859 Charles Darwin's On the Origins of Species would rattle the core of a secular world, but what Darwin most likely did not suspect was the impact his revolutionary studies would have on his younger cousin, Francis Galton. It was not until Charles Darwin's second publishing The Variation
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First seen with the practice of sterilization, that became popularized five months into Adolf Hitler's rise to power (1933), when the Nazi’s began legalizing and enforcing non-voluntary sterilization for those deemed to possess a hereditary disorder or disease; that would retrograde advancements of the genetically and evolutionarily superior Aryan Race. The practice of sterilization in Nazi Germany would then begin to take form as the more extreme euthanasia program, which would subsequently lead to the establishment of the Nazi extermination camps. purpose built for the effective extermination of all those determined to be “unfit” for german society including Jews, Gypsies, Mentally Insane or Handicapped, Homosexual and other gender disordered individuals, as well as of those who were opposed to the Reich such as communists or democrats with the inclusion of prisoners of …show more content…
The direct enemy of Nazi Germany the United States themselves practiced Eugenics along with, The United Kingdom, the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia, and several Scandinavian countries. However, although many Western Nations practiced Eugenics themselves unlike the Nazi’s, they would not escalate their eugenics programs to the systematic murdering of Millions of innocent individuals, with the inclusion of racial heritage. This particular difference could be in part due to the social, and economic crisis that existed in the German Weimar Republic, as a result of Germany’s debilitating loss in the First World War. The Treaty of Versailles was the agreement between the victorious nations and Germany, in which Germany would lose much of it’s empire, as well as be forced to pay infeasible reparations for the damages of the first World War to the victorious powers. Germany was simply unable to properly pay these massive debts, as well as simultaneously rebuild their own war-torn country. So as result the German Economy would be propped up by loans from largely the United States, this kept the German economy from the brink of collapse, however this all changed when the Great Depression and Stock Market crash occurred. Germany would experience vast negative repercussions as a result of the Depression in
First seen with the practice of sterilization, that became popularized five months into Adolf Hitler's rise to power (1933), when the Nazi’s began legalizing and enforcing non-voluntary sterilization for those deemed to possess a hereditary disorder or disease; that would retrograde advancements of the genetically and evolutionarily superior Aryan Race. The practice of sterilization in Nazi Germany would then begin to take form as the more extreme euthanasia program, which would subsequently lead to the establishment of the Nazi extermination camps. purpose built for the effective extermination of all those determined to be “unfit” for german society including Jews, Gypsies, Mentally Insane or Handicapped, Homosexual and other gender disordered individuals, as well as of those who were opposed to the Reich such as communists or democrats with the inclusion of prisoners of …show more content…
The direct enemy of Nazi Germany the United States themselves practiced Eugenics along with, The United Kingdom, the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia, and several Scandinavian countries. However, although many Western Nations practiced Eugenics themselves unlike the Nazi’s, they would not escalate their eugenics programs to the systematic murdering of Millions of innocent individuals, with the inclusion of racial heritage. This particular difference could be in part due to the social, and economic crisis that existed in the German Weimar Republic, as a result of Germany’s debilitating loss in the First World War. The Treaty of Versailles was the agreement between the victorious nations and Germany, in which Germany would lose much of it’s empire, as well as be forced to pay infeasible reparations for the damages of the first World War to the victorious powers. Germany was simply unable to properly pay these massive debts, as well as simultaneously rebuild their own war-torn country. So as result the German Economy would be propped up by loans from largely the United States, this kept the German economy from the brink of collapse, however this all changed when the Great Depression and Stock Market crash occurred. Germany would experience vast negative repercussions as a result of the Depression in