“How did you come up with the name for your company, the Genics Institute? I’ve always been curious about that.” I’m not curious, not after Oma told us all about Uncle Eugen, not after I looked up his institute and discovered its real name. The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics. Eugenic. Well-born. All Madeleine Sinclair’s talk about a better America and better families and better humans weaves itself into one horrible, sickening concept.
