Adolf Hitler: Genetics vs Eugenics

Eugenics is the science of improving the human species by selectively mating people with specific desirable hereditary traits. It aims to reduce human suffering by “breeding out” disease, disabilities and so-called undesirable characteristics from the human population. Early supporters of eugenics believed people inherited mental illness, criminal tendencies and even poverty, and that these conditions could be bred out of the gene pool. Historically, eugenics encouraged people of so-called healthy, superior stock to reproduce and discouraged reproduction of the mentally challenged or anyone who fell outside the social norm. Eugenics was popular in America during much of the first half of the twentieth century, yet it earned its negative association mainly from Adolf Hitler’s obsessive attempts to create a superior Aryan race. Modern eugenics, more often called human genetic engineering, has come a long way—scientifically and ethically—and offers hope for treating many devastating genetic illnesses. Even so, it remains controversial. #genetics #eugenics #populationGenetics #sterilization #forcedSterilizationsInTheUs #forcedSterilizations #saraRosasGarcia #evolution #sirFrancisGalton #alexanderGrahamBell #margaretSanger #henryHGoddard #reproduction #holocaust #nazis #naziGermany #naziEugenics #racialHygiene #davidMarcus #civilRights #californiaSterilization #AlexandraMinnaStern #NatalieLira #HloseDorsanRachet #education #animation #NikolaysGeneticsLessons