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How Britain and America Inspired Nazi Eugenics
After the defeat of the Nazis in 1945, the world was horrified to discover the terrible genocide perpetrated by fascism. But missing from much of our discussion of history is the role played by British and American eugenicists, from the late 19th century onwards, in fuelling ideas of racial superiority and ultimately inspiring the Nazi project to promote a 'master race' at the expense of those deemed 'unfit'. Some of the very characters involved in the defeat of Hitler in fact played a key role in nurturing the seeds of his fascist ideology.
0:00 Intro
00:39 Origins of Eugenics
01:29 The Rise of Eugenics
02:20 A Famous Champion (Winston Churchill and Eugenics)
03:16 Eugenic Policy in the United States
05:31 Mein Kampf: Hitler and Eugenics
07:49 Opponents of Eugenics
09:07 Nazi Eugenics
10:42 Involuntary Euthanasia Programme 'Aktion T4'
11:33 The Post-War Memory Lapse on Eugenics
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  • @somerandomvertebrate9262
    @somerandomvertebrate9262 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    I don't see how eugenics is supposed to be a "pseudo-science"? Ethically undesirable, perhaps, but "pseudo"? Really?

  • @chriskappert1365
    @chriskappert1365 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Mother nature herself is racist ..... Disabled animals get thrown out of the nest ......😮

  • @nevillereimers6336
    @nevillereimers6336 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The biggest criminals were those elites espousing this diabolical idea where do ideas like this end

  • @07712a
    @07712a วันที่ผ่านมา

    They did not say anti semetic 😂😂😂

  • @cjmesq
    @cjmesq วันที่ผ่านมา

    Correction: The Democrats supported eugenics. Not the Republicans. The Democrats were, and still are, the party of racism.

  • @neuropsychologist
    @neuropsychologist วันที่ผ่านมา

    Well you certainly spun that narrative! Darwin and Mendels‘s theories of natural selection and hereditary laws were twisted into a narrative of unethical eugenics. The book by German PhD students „Die Freigabe der Vernichtung lebensunwerten Lebens“, Alfred Hoche and Karl Binding (1920) fell into Hitler‘s hands and he jumped on it. Translated the book title is: „Allowing the destruction of life unworthy of life. Its measure & form.“ That means: Hitler was interested in creating his perfect aryan race: remove the mentally ill, genetically deformed and anyone who did not fit into „perfection“. He felt the others didn’t deserve their life and were a drain on the state. Therefore: I totally disagree with your upload. Sorry, but facts are facts. Liebe Grüße aus Deutschland 🇩🇪

  • @FelixReulare
    @FelixReulare 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    ok now do "Germany Must Perish" written by the jew Theodore N. Kaufman, or are you a loxist hypocrite?

  • @RALPH49100
    @RALPH49100 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    And to think that Israel is (and has since day one of the establishment of its state in 1948) doing the same to another peoples: kicking them out of their homeland, perpetrating acts of terrorism, corralling people in guetos with rebellious individuals being tagged as terrorists, invading territories and conducting brutal settlements - lebens raum. Very sad.

  • @Omarfonda
    @Omarfonda 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The British are worse than Nazis !!!!!

  • @papi5377
    @papi5377 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Adolf Bacharach Rotchild od zarania poszukiwał w wie sobie wyższą rasę. Poszukiwania dotarły nawet do Chin ,jeden z namiestników Rotchilda spotykał się z najwyższymi kapłanem Dalajlamom by zapytać czy spotkał sie z rasa aryjską Zabawne ale i prawdziwe.

  • @papi5377
    @papi5377 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    To Rotchildsa śmietnik. I był khazaremv[To Rotchild]

  • @sallthefirst
    @sallthefirst 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    There were no heroes in WWII , just criminals, when it comes to nations or political groups.

  • @fortunatomartino8549
    @fortunatomartino8549 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Could you imagine all peoples were inyer married to black people

  • @octavioaraujo1674
    @octavioaraujo1674 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    If course, read Edwin Black's book: " War against the Weak."

  • @sebastian_arroyave_author
    @sebastian_arroyave_author 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Who would have thought that those who were subject of eugenics genocidal, racist and inhumane practices would be now telling the world they're cleaning a country from its "human animal" inhabitants.

  • @adhamsalem9121
    @adhamsalem9121 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    three words " les enfants teribble"

  • @realitycheckreally8412
    @realitycheckreally8412 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    How come no mention Soviet unions New Soviet man project ?..

  • @collaborisgaming2190
    @collaborisgaming2190 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Sad that the WEF and most Globalist Groups are full of Eugenicysts, the Infection and Calamity on the Morals of Progress. It's Ironic that the Free World Harbors them as Parasites against Liberty. They'll drop the Liberal Charade someday and show even the Ardent Liberals they were Support Fascism all Along.

  • @paulpizzuto4288
    @paulpizzuto4288 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thanks for exposing the Truth. Unfortunately it is still going on.

  • @HeathenDance
    @HeathenDance 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    These extreme measures are always a bunch of hipocrisy. Ok, let's discuss the issue: If any community or regime really wants to go for this, then, one of the inevitable things to do is to abolish marriage and disencourage monogamy. Which is actually completely contrary to human nature already. A woman in her fertile and young years is literally biologically programmed to have several sexual partners at the same time. This way she knows that the sperm from the genetically stronger and healthier partner is the one that prevails. This is actually how it was, originally, before our species started to organize itself in more stable and complex communities. Which explains how our species was strong and viable enough to conquer the world against predators, harsh weather, while hunting and looking for other sources of food, shelter, etc. No Politician ever defended such measure, which, at least, would be truthful and coherent.

  • @habibikebabtheiii2037
    @habibikebabtheiii2037 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Lenin supported eugenics he wanted men to be more like machines

  • @extantia
    @extantia 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Darwin was keen on eugenics as well, according to his follow up book "The Descent of Man". Margaret Sanger's "A Pivot of Civilization" also supported it.

  • @harryflash5202
    @harryflash5202 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Eugenics actually makes good sense.

  • @Tamarathegood
    @Tamarathegood 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    One could argue that giving kids puberty blockers is a form of eugenics sterilizing a huge amount of gay or confused western children.

  • @avibhagan
    @avibhagan 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The Economic Theory of Globalist capitalism and WEF are the new Eugenics !

  • @lucianofreire1848
    @lucianofreire1848 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    That's what you get from materialism and Darwinism.

  • @richalva6814
    @richalva6814 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Planned parenthood

  • @frankmorschner6803
    @frankmorschner6803 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Many see Churchill still as a hero, not knowing that he and some others of the English aristocracy and oligarchy was one of the masterminds how to trick Germany into the First World War. The same “trick” used to trick Russia into the war. Churchill is therefore rather the driving force of the fall of the British Empire, without him wanting it of course. But he and his friends did not think of the consequences such a war with Germany and later in the Second World War against the Russians might have.

  • @miniaturejayhawk8702
    @miniaturejayhawk8702 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I dont believe in "never again". Its an empty promise full of naive idealism. Ironically some of its proponents have resorted to suggesting eugenics in case pacifist indoctrination doesnt work. If they cant raise people to be against violence they will just selectively breed people who are incapable of it. And the underlying message in the tone of this video is also pretty clear: eugenics was only bad because it was involuntary, unacademic and used by racists. The issue was never that it was used but rather by whom and it was used and to what end. It also doesnt help that the phrase is used mostly to protect powerful jewish individuals and communities instead of actually preventing genocides around the world, which ironically just feeds into the antisemitic sentiment of jews being a protected class.

  • @proudamerican7662
    @proudamerican7662 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    There are plenty of undesirables in the British royalty: the Prince Andrew, King Charles, the current Prince Henry of Wales, and his idiot brother married to Merkel. You could say the sot😮 himself, Churchill, was an undesirable. The 2 daughters of Prince Andrew, what do these people contribute to the betterment of society?

  • @misspoliticallyincorrect2081
    @misspoliticallyincorrect2081 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The 0.1% controls our history, the flow of information and what we’re allowed to consume intellectually on a massive scale globally. So because of this, there’s just so much important, relevant information that so many of us don’t know which makes it impossible to make informed decisions and opinions on past and current issues. “I want a nation of workers, not a nation of thinkers” -J.D Rockefeller (funded the general education board of America)

  • @saves5650
    @saves5650 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Science did that

  • @sansoosavage
    @sansoosavage 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    If you think the Uniparty/“elites” don’t still believe in(and are putting into practice) this dreck, you’re sorely mistaken.

  • @ScooterDoge
    @ScooterDoge 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I also agree with things.

  • @Thunderbird1968
    @Thunderbird1968 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Woke culture still embraces evolution despite Darwin’s book saying in the full title that there are “favoured races”

  • @ultramarineblue-mq7fp
    @ultramarineblue-mq7fp 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I remember reading a TH-cam comment under a video that was similar to this. Summarily, the comment said that the Holocaust was a result of European imperialism turned inwards onto itself. This comment really stuck with me because on reflection there are quite a few similarities in the rhetorics and practices of the historic institutionalisation of antisemitism and the imperial institutionalisation of racism à la colonialism and imperialism. For example, the ways in which Christian rhetoric was used to dehumanise the Jews and indigenous folk. Or the constant questioning of the effect of the presence of Jewish communities, and now immigrant communities, on the wellbeing/sanctity of the white community.

  • @DuneSurfer
    @DuneSurfer 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    If the Nazis which incorrectly is called ‘right’ when they were closer to communists, did eugenics, then why is the left pushing eugenics with the Trans movement?

  • @raymondperdigone7870
    @raymondperdigone7870 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    They where both jews

  • @tomvernham4594
    @tomvernham4594 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    How long has “eugenics” existed among Judaism (those who call themselves “Jews”)?

  • @Pheonix5-ih8hc
    @Pheonix5-ih8hc 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Well, humankinds PRIMITIVE ANCESTORS also basically believed in and practiced "eugenics" too, don't you know? .. . only IT gets called "natural selection". Just sayin.

  • @donalberda1344
    @donalberda1344 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    How many people know about what happened on Ellis Island? Another hotspot for eugenics and forced sterilization.

  • @englishguru0007
    @englishguru0007 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Inspiring Nazis and Zionists. Great leadership. #sarcasm

  • @MicaelAlbrecht-lk9uf
    @MicaelAlbrecht-lk9uf 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Look deeply into what and where this Notsi idea originated and for what purpose. Get to know what an ethnic German is as opposed to recent visitors. Look deeply into what aryans, essenes, tartarians are before formulating decisions. Aeons and archons, kabbalah, gnosticism, zoroastrianism, etc. ancient knowledge and mysteries, all have their place. People of light, integrity values, traditions. People of dark, nefarious propaganda, and counter intuitive forces and effects, to incarcerate people, mentally physically spiritually and financially. Many lies and propaganda to dig through to TRUTH. Some people have powerful Influence, to create s peaceful fishing village, into a terrorist killers village, only to take their boats, their land, or their simple golden livelyhoods. Think about people using everything they have, to acquire, other people's goods .....then you will get a clue, and your discernment might protect you, knowing it will not be without scars. Protecting the truth doesnt come without endurance and tests. The Rejected Cornerstone Remember to carry the ONE

  • @hystericheretic7678
    @hystericheretic7678 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Would you have babies with a Down syndrome women? Would you have babies with the most ugly women? If not. Then you partake in the same eugenics Hitler was talking about. Your history is fabricated. Hitler said and did none of that. They are lying to you all. Dude was vegan lol. 😂😂😂🤦 if this gets deleted then I’m right.

    • @habibikebabtheiii2037
      @habibikebabtheiii2037 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      He was vegetarian. It helped to stop pe pe stimulation.

  • @LambsyLamb
    @LambsyLamb 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Eugenics like Freudian psychology is a total fiction. Galton got it so wrong, we can't improve stock, if we breed the best of the best we'll cause mutations and eventually make ourselves extinct. Life thrives on genetic variation!

  • @thomaspayne3347
    @thomaspayne3347 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    So then, what if, anything has really changed. In the U.S. under the guise of a woman’s right to choose, family planning and woman’s health. The modern day eugenicists ideal is continuing their cleansing of the undesirables , useless feeder’s, if you will, through abortion, birth control, and self sterilization. With the latest example held at one of Presidential candidate Harris’ rallies through Parent’s United. Performing free vasectomies. I find it most curious? That almost 70% of all Abortion clinics are located in Minority areas/ neighborhood’s. The main difference that I see today over that from the last century is that today we have been indoctrinated to believe that it’s our own idea rather than having these measures forced upon us through outright legislation. And yet if we are willing to peer into the WHO and their Globalist draconian eugenics proposal’s of Legislation through treaties and agreements. These are even more Holocaustic measures that would be implemented, to include the euthanization of the elderly, infirm, and mentally unstable. Which they term, End of life therapy. All with the end goal of population reduction. 50% by 2030 and 90% by 2050. So was Hitler and the Nazi’s monsters? If so? Then what has this generation become? May the Almighty Sovereign of all that exists, Seen and unseen, who gives us our each day and our every breath and heartbeat and division of cell, have mercy upon us all! Shalom friends

  • @MickieKinger
    @MickieKinger 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Still no mention of the Gypsies. Nothing changes.

  • @entranced1000
    @entranced1000 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Hi. In 1979 my insides were removed for this very subject. My life has been torture. For the record. They abuse us very badly. Now my kids hsve been brutally treated and I AM BEGGING FOR HELP. The abuse is kept off radar and away from main stream services. It IS ABUSE. SOS

  • @TodaTruth
    @TodaTruth 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The germans were So Evil

  • @seedsowersofisrael.4660
    @seedsowersofisrael.4660 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Devils