History 317 Lecture--Origins of Modern Racism and Eugenics

 

Outline

 

Origins of Eugenics——Racial Hygiene

Rise of racism and "racial" anti-Semitism

            - Gobineau

            - Vacher de Lapouge

            - Houston Stewart Chamberlain

            - American theories:  polygenesis

                        - Samuel George Morton

                        - Paul Broca

Darwin's theory and influence

Sir Cyril Burt and Identical Twins

 

Origins of Eugenics

Darwin

Family Studies

            - Dugdale:  Jukes

            - Goddard:  Kallikaks

Eugenics around the world

German Racial Hygiene

Fritz Lenz

Racial Hygiene under the Nazis

Sterilization Law

The American Connection

Genetic Health Courts

Women and Natalism in Nazi Germany  

Organic Nazism and the Volksgemeinschaft

Euthanasia" (1)

Kinderaktion

Adult campaign

Significance of racial hygiene movement

            - KinderAktion

            -Adult Euthanasia; trucks on the way to T4 facilities

            -Operation 14f13

Conclusion:  An ancient hatred?