What is Eugenics? "Eugenics is the study of how to arrange reproduction within a human population to increase the occurrence of heritable characteristics regarded as desirable. Developed largely by Sir Francis Galton as a method of improving the human race, eugenics was increasingly discredited as unscientific and racially biased during the 20th century, especially after the adoption of its doctrines by the Nazis in order to justify their treatment of Jews, disabled people, and other minority groups.(Lexigo)"
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For my English portion I analyzed a perspective from Germany during the 1940's on a jewish persons perspective. I wrote a poem as what a jewish person saw around them and how they were treated. Eugenics was a major part of the holocaust because then Hitler himself used eugenics to justify his actions. This poem was inspired from other poems written by jewish people from the holocaust, including a famous person "Anne Frank." The Holocaust was overall a very dark time in history and may we take the time to remember all of those innocent souls who had been tortured for who they just are.
For my social studies portion I analyzed quotes during when eugenics was really looked at and acted upon. I look at and analyzed quotes from Adolf Hitler and Margaret Sanger. During the Holocaust Hitler once said "Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself." Hitler wanted to use sterilization to justify the fact that he thought he was more superior than any other jewish person. I also analyzed Margaret Sanger's quotes which she said,"Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance to that poor individual; but it is of scarcely less importance to the rest of us and to all of our children who must pay in one way or another for these biological and racial mistakes." Margaret Sanger in this quotes was a birth control activist and that ties back to eugenics.
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