He and his Nazi Party’s racism and ethnic cleansing could proceed unabated. The focal points of the Nazi Party (the National Socialist German Worker’s Party, or NSDAP) were “race” and “heredity,” and its goal was to develop a genetically healthy and racially pure German national community, or Volk (Weiss 2010). Thus, Nazi Germany moved into dominance of the eugenics movement in the 1930s. In fact, Nazism can be seen as the logical culmination of this sinister ideology.

