Show notes
In this episode of History Fix, I reveal the dark history of the eugenics movement and how it led to the forced sterilization of over 60,000 Americans. I'll also reveal how American sterilization policies influenced similar policies enacted in Hitler's Nazi Germany that led to the forced sterilization of 400,000 Germans, the "euthanasia" of 250,000 disabled people, and eventually the murders of 6 million Jewish people during the holocaust. This one's heavy, but you won't want to skip it!
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Sources:
- National Human Genome Research Institute "Eugenics: Its Origins and Development"
- Scitable by Nature Education "America's Hidden History: The Eugenics Movement"
- National Library of Medicine "US Scientists' Role in the Eugenics Movement"
- US Holocaust Memorial Museum Holocaust Encyclopedia "Eugenics"
- US Holocaust Memorial Museum Holocaust Encyclopedia "Euthanasia Program and Aktion T4"
- The New York Times "The Long Shadow of Eugenics in America"
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