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Originally Posted by Plays With Life  It seems to me that Hitler got his "superior race" ideas from Americans. here:
..."From an historical point of view, the first method which presents itself is execution . . . Its value in keeping up the standard of the race should not be underestimated." "Applied Eugenics" also devoted a chapter to "Lethal Selection,"
> Even the U.S. Supreme Court endorsed aspects of eugenics. In its infamous 1927 decision, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote, "It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind . . . Three generations of imbeciles are enough." |
It is one thing to argue for the severely mentally disabled to be sterilized, or even lethal selection. But how exactly was Hitler manipulated into using this as justification for the mass murder of Jewish people?
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Hitler kind of gets the "blame". But I tend to think he was put forward by the people who were really driving the eugenics movement. I wonder if he wasn't just a "front", a convenient figurehead individual for these people. I don't really know how much he was in or out of the loop about what was really going on.
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Regardless of where he may have gotten his ideas from, Hitler had the power and there is no evidence that he was being controlled by anyone. From the historical documents, there is so much evidence that he not only knew exactly what was going on, but that he orchestrated it from beginning to end.