History 2147A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Strafgesetzbuch, Rhineland Bastard, Eugenics
2 Apr 2013
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Hitler always claimed germans were superior; however, when he came to power the germans found out that not all of them were racially pure . Eugenics: not a nazi invention, it originated in england. Galton proposed the science of the improvement of genetic makeup. He was concerned that lower class had more children. This is a problem because they believed that social delienquencies were hereditary. The children would also be alcholics and prostitutes. They became concerned of the genetic health of their nation because it translated into the quality of their soldiers. Eugenics came to a conclusion that positive eugenics would promote high birth rate in high class, and negative eugenics would discourage unworthy individuals from having children. They believed that their fertility and lives should be controlled this way. Once you were identified as a certain class it determined how you were to live. Germany- united by the ties of blood.
