War Against the Weak Quotes

“Eventually, America's eugenic movement spread to Germany as well, where it caught the fascination of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement. Under Hitler, eugenics careened beyond any American eugenicists's dream. National Socialism transduced America's quest for a "superior Nordic race" into Hitler's drive for an "Aryan master race.”
― Edwin Black, War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race

“Some 200,000 Germans of all backgrounds had been sterilized by 1937. After that the records were not published.”
― Edwin Black, War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race

“The Carnegie Institution continued to back eugenics long after its executives became convinced it was a worthless nonscience based on shabby data.”
― Edwin Black, War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race

“Throughout the first six decades of the twentieth century, hundreds of thousands of Americans and untold numbers of others were not permitted to continue their families by reproducing. Selected because of their ancestry, national origin, race or religion, they were forcibly sterilized, wrongly committed to mental institutions where they died in great numbers, prohibited from marrying, and sometimes even unmarried by state bureaucrats. In America, this battle to wipe out whole ethnic groups was fought not by armies with guns nor by hate sects at the margins Rather, this pernicious white-gloved war was prosecuted by esteemed professors, elite universities, wealthy industrialists, and government officials colluding in a racist, pseudoscientific movement called eugenics. The purpose: create a superior Nordic race.”
― Edwin Black, War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race

“The American masses were not rising up demanding to sterilize, institutionalize and dehumanize their neighbors and kinfolk. Eugenics was a movement of the nation’s elite thinkers and many of its most progressive reformers.”
― Edwin Black, War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race