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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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КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @darraghnolan3153
    @darraghnolan3153 День тому

    In all fairness now I actually don’t give a dam if people think they were right to do those experiments on these people the nazis were monsters just as anyone here who doesn’t care about the suffering of others

  • @MontyFondatent
    @MontyFondatent 3 дні тому

    Bro this was Great. Now I understand .... alot makes sense now.

  • @EvanLoper-pj5wk
    @EvanLoper-pj5wk 4 дні тому

    No more Stephen hawking...

  • @JeremyHelm
    @JeremyHelm 5 днів тому

    1:29 overthrow the scaffold

    • @JeremyHelm
      @JeremyHelm 5 днів тому

      3:57 insurrection against slavery

    • @JeremyHelm
      @JeremyHelm 5 днів тому

      6:16 last address

    • @JeremyHelm
      @JeremyHelm 5 днів тому

      6:24 there's the problem right there. You're hearing this like a spectator. It's not a prediction, but a call to action, here falling upon deaf ears 😢

    • @JeremyHelm
      @JeremyHelm 5 днів тому

      7:05 ah. Hugo's backing me up here: to love is to act

  • @flournoymason8961
    @flournoymason8961 5 днів тому

    The difference between believeing in eugenics is how they reacted to their beliefs. Churchill didn't believe in mass murder. Neither did Darwin or any other decent world leadr. Hitler did and look what happened to him.

  • @Kagekivx
    @Kagekivx 12 днів тому

    You can test for miscarriage and genetic defects through DNA.

  • @GentlemanLife-Beyotch
    @GentlemanLife-Beyotch 12 днів тому

    Here here 🎩

  • @noble_norse7786
    @noble_norse7786 12 днів тому

    How Democrats inspired Nazi eugenics! Fixed the title for you!

  • @oye4511
    @oye4511 13 днів тому

    👍👍

  • @janwojtyna3392
    @janwojtyna3392 14 днів тому

    The USA, UK as well as Russia don't like it when you remind them of their ties to Holocaust. It is better to pretend to be the one with moral high ground. Especially when, in the name of building relations with Germany, a country president calls Auschwitz "Polish death camp" (wtf Obama?)...

  • @lainet
    @lainet 15 днів тому

    I think it's dangerous to state that Eugenics is pseudo-science. Yes, people were clueless on the specifics, what is cultural, what is from genes. The racist approach focusing on outer visual attributes was pseudo-science and horrible yes, but the fact is that gene manipulation and selective breeding does work the same way in humans as in (other) animals. I think Eugenics is a very important topic today, considering how we are now able to manipulate genes in lab. There are many ethical/moral questions that come with that.

  • @Godzillafan1980
    @Godzillafan1980 15 днів тому

    There's some truth to eugenics... Well it's true

  • @donaldwhittaker7987
    @donaldwhittaker7987 16 днів тому

    Eugenics is not evil. It is the principle behind breeding racing horses and dogs. Eugenics is just artificial selection or selective breeding. Let's not be stupid just because human eugenics was once common sense. Prominent biologists and economists knew and know that eugenics is a good idea if not carried to barbaric extremes.

  • @deusmate
    @deusmate 18 днів тому

    Wonderful video

  • @africaRBG
    @africaRBG 22 дні тому

    well done! I am related to all of them except James Hammett. Here in South-Western Ontario, Canada, the descendants of James Brine and Elizabeth Standfield hold an annual family reunion on the first sunday of july.

  • @blessingkyerekoomson7342
    @blessingkyerekoomson7342 26 днів тому

    She was such a queen

  • @eltiospike7672
    @eltiospike7672 28 днів тому

    Ironic that the group of people who wanted to do eugenics to get rid of crime were also the same group of people who committed the worst unprovoked genocides in history

  • @williampartridge4595
    @williampartridge4595 29 днів тому

    RACIST BIGOT HOMOPHOBE!!!!!!

  • @franciscocunha3232
    @franciscocunha3232 Місяць тому

    Eugenics is basically genetic breeding, and humans have been doing it for thousands of years, some tribes still do it.

  • @fortunatomartino8549
    @fortunatomartino8549 Місяць тому

    Isreal believes in the "master race" You'll never find a direct quote from German leadership about a master race "The Chosen people "

    • @theobamiumchronicles2838
      @theobamiumchronicles2838 28 днів тому

      If you weren’t blinded by hate you would actually look into what they actually believe

  • @fortunatomartino8549
    @fortunatomartino8549 Місяць тому

    Don't believe the anti German propaganda surrounding ww2 Everything is a lie

  • @fortunatomartino8549
    @fortunatomartino8549 Місяць тому

    People marry up and good marriages are practicing eugenics

  • @ProjectSunV
    @ProjectSunV Місяць тому

    More lies toward those who lost the war. Shame.

  • @keatonduckett6966
    @keatonduckett6966 Місяць тому

    Yeah now look into Planned Parenthood

  • @johnfartson4080
    @johnfartson4080 Місяць тому

    Europa the last battle

  • @THEARKHAMKNIGHT2593
    @THEARKHAMKNIGHT2593 Місяць тому

    CHARLES DARWIN & EUGENICS EVIL 100%

  • @elliotfong8794
    @elliotfong8794 Місяць тому

    I want to know about this eugenics. I can't believe this stupid ideal is still around.

  • @MindofKasper
    @MindofKasper Місяць тому

    Bravo🎉

  • @PrivateAccountXSG
    @PrivateAccountXSG Місяць тому

    This has very bogus framing. This isn't really how things went down...

  • @adrianmanofthewest8388
    @adrianmanofthewest8388 Місяць тому

    Jewish.

  • @josephnash2081
    @josephnash2081 Місяць тому

    Eugenics was widely believed in most of the world before the NAZIs discredited it with their atrocities.

  • @tiffanygrever8092
    @tiffanygrever8092 Місяць тому

    Sounds about right, I have an autistic son and a friend of my husband's was telling me that I should have him sterilized, I told her that eugenics gives me the creeps.

  • @BeezerWashingbeard
    @BeezerWashingbeard Місяць тому

    Is the difference not the fact that one system put so called "undesirables" in gas chambers and the other didn't?

  • @CarlosReyes-jv1wp
    @CarlosReyes-jv1wp Місяць тому

    Beautifull work!!!!

  • @cjod33
    @cjod33 Місяць тому

    If we accept that people are animals and we also accept that selective breeding in animals works(which we know that it does) then its not hard to understand why Eugenics became accepted. After the cvd pndmc it should be obvious to all just how easy it is to manipulate one group of people against another group.

  • @user-uq7kn7pf2g
    @user-uq7kn7pf2g Місяць тому

    I am one of Hugo's fans.,

  • @jonathanstempleton7864
    @jonathanstempleton7864 Місяць тому

    Today we have a kind of political eugenics. If your thoughts or opinions are not "pure" and do not conform to the prevailing ideology, you can be silenced and punished "for the good of society".

  • @thefreeman8791
    @thefreeman8791 Місяць тому

    Abortion also played a major role in eugenics and still does. Margaret Sanger openly stated that her whole point in founding planned parenthood was to kill of undesirables and especially black people. Nazi leaders also quoted her as inspiration as well. Sanger supported the forced sterilization of Jews, blacks, mentally disabled, physically disabled, etc and many of her writings were quoted at length by Nazis.

  • @DeMan59
    @DeMan59 Місяць тому

    What a complete load of total horse shit and revisionist history.

    • @user-vf6nn6hx9x
      @user-vf6nn6hx9x Місяць тому

      Triggered af

    • @BadPumpkinComics
      @BadPumpkinComics Місяць тому

      "Germany is the first of the world's major nations to enact a modern eugenical sterilization law for the nation as a unit. Among the smaller nations Denmark led all countries with a national statute in this field, but the law recently promulgated by the Nazi Government marks several substantive advances. Doubtless the legislative and court history of the experimental sterilization laws in 27 states of the American union provided the experience which Germany used in writing her new national sterilization statute. To one versed in the history of eugenical sterilization in America, the text of the German statute reads almost like the 'American model sterilization law.'" -Eugenical News, September-October, 1933

    • @user-vf6nn6hx9x
      @user-vf6nn6hx9x Місяць тому

      The US was the role model and inspiration behind Germany's supremacist ideology, racist laws and policies, eugenics, expansionism etc Before the war the Nazis had thousands of their people in the US studying and learning from the most racist nation of the time.

  • @user-ho4nw5sf3w
    @user-ho4nw5sf3w Місяць тому

    I see nothing brave here. It's a subject that I've seen documentaries about. It is a subject that needs more exposure. It's a practice as old as cattle breeding. It's biblical. When man learned that he could breed cattle for desirable traits it wasn't long before he applied it to himself. And in one form or another it's been going on since. Examples, The fashion industry dictates what people should look like, dress like, smell like, groom like. Through various forms of birth control we limit the size of families allowing available resources to be consintraited in the next generation, hopefully improving the human race.Many wars have been fought because of this, and many more will be. Perhaps this is our original sin.

  • @Gingerphile00
    @Gingerphile00 Місяць тому

    Stop trying to lump the uk and a,Erica together. Germany was a proper European country, America is just another Brazil. Germany wanted to be like Britain. Get murica out of this narrative.

    • @DanielGarcia-kw4ep
      @DanielGarcia-kw4ep Місяць тому

      America and Britain come from the same sh1tty anglosaxon culture, you can see how the americans are the inheritors of the british empire, doing all the same crimes and keeping unprecedented world power

    • @user-vf6nn6hx9x
      @user-vf6nn6hx9x Місяць тому

      Murica was the role model and inspiration for Nazi supremacist ideologies, scientific racism, racist laws, systemic racism, racist terrorism, expansionism , eugenics, human medical experimentation etc Before the war the Nazis had thousands of their people in the US studying those things. The US had a large Nazi following, with a Nazi party, many Nazi societies and Nazi parades in cities like NY

    • @BadPumpkinComics
      @BadPumpkinComics Місяць тому

      @@user-vf6nn6hx9x More specifically, it was American Progressives that were influenced by German philosophy that enacted those policies after returning home from studying in Germany in the 1880s and it fed back into Germany later. Eugenics, creating the administrative state (ie: rule by experts because government wasn't "efficient" enough), and minimum wage laws to kick blacks, immigrants and women out of the work force because they were taking jobs away from the white, Anglo-Saxon males, were all acts of Progressivism, which influenced right and left wing political parties. It was Progressive thinking that led the United States to cut off 98% of immigrants coming to America for some time. Modern concepts of Progressive "social justice" started to take shape in the 1930s. A series of editorials by the leading Progressive "educators" began in 1934 called "The Social Frontier." In the first editorial, Progressives hitched the future of Progressivism to the American Historical Association's Investigation of the Social Studies in the Schools Conclusions and Recommendations report. "The Social Frontier assumes that the age of individualism in economy is closing and that an age marked by close integration of social life and by collective planning and control is opening." The Social Frontier: A Critical Reader, pg. 21 From the AHA report: "Cumulative evidence supports the conclusion that, in the United States as in other countries, the age of individualism and laissez-faire in economy and government is closing and that a new age of collectivism is emerging" (pg. 16) "The Commission deems possible and desirable the steady enlargement of sympathetic understanding and mutual toleration among the diverse races, religions, and cultural groups which compose the American nation, to the end, not only that tensions may be relaxed and transition to the emerging economy may be expedited, but also that the emerging economy may be attended by diversities in culture which are mutually respected and that the individual may be thus sustained in resistance to mental and spiritual regimentation." (pg. 24) In layman's terms: social justice for collectivism. Also, that you not be "regimented," meaning "organized," against it. Keep in mind at this time, that these so-called thought leaders, like George Counts and Charles Beard, thought blacks should be treated as nothing more than adult children.

  • @Gordon_Freeman_PhD
    @Gordon_Freeman_PhD Місяць тому

    I cannot believe how many rightwingers in the comment sections had almost every point of this video just fly over their head.

  • @jefferykirschner8816
    @jefferykirschner8816 Місяць тому

    W Britain W America W Germany

    • @Gingerphile00
      @Gingerphile00 Місяць тому

      Don’t putt muttmurica in the same sentence as those 2 European country’s. America is just the Brazil often northern hemisphere.

    • @jefferykirschner8816
      @jefferykirschner8816 Місяць тому

      @@Gingerphile00 quit sperging

  • @jefftaylor1186
    @jefftaylor1186 Місяць тому

    It’s that old American dad joke “WHAT? You don’t know WHY the Germans and Americans fought in WWII?” **shakes head** “Nobody knows”

  • @jenluvsplanes
    @jenluvsplanes Місяць тому

    Eugenics included irradiating homosexuality.... very interesting. Imagine if today's woke schools and universities actually taught this. Instead they teach what a brave "pioneer" Margaret Sanger was. She basically laid out the plan for the Nazi's. Poverty stricken, mental deficiency, genetic abnormalities, weak and unfit, disabled, inferior, feebleminded (aka mentally ill). Damn in today's times this pretty much covers half the population... Imagine being euthanized or sterilized for not being very smart or up to their 'standards'.

  • @TheCondoLife-er4og
    @TheCondoLife-er4og Місяць тому

    THIS SHIT IS STILL ALIVE AND WELL TODAY

  • @theskippy7
    @theskippy7 Місяць тому

    ALL socialists believe in eugenics,thats why the UN/WEF/EU are so left wing and Socialist based,most of them are made up of the children of the German Nazis. ALL our governments are basically Socialist in nature,they want the masses to live under socialism,and the "elites" to live under Laissez Fairre.

    • @DanielGarcia-kw4ep
      @DanielGarcia-kw4ep Місяць тому

      Of course, the biggest corporations on the world, and the organizations that are yesmen of the USA are al left-wing. Please touch some grass you have spent too much time on the internet

    • @user-vf6nn6hx9x
      @user-vf6nn6hx9x Місяць тому

      Admit being politically illiterate 😅😅

    • @theskippy7
      @theskippy7 Місяць тому

      @@user-vf6nn6hx9x Is it easy being a bell end,while hiding behind childrens meme,s?

  • @dupplinmuir113
    @dupplinmuir113 Місяць тому

    Prior to WWII it was leftists who were all in favour of eugenics, while rightists disapproved because they saw it as playing God. H G Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, all were in favour. Marie Stopes (in Britain) and Margaret Sanger (in the US) are celebrated as pioneers of women's rights, but actually wanted to prevent poor people (and blacks in the case of Sanger) from reproducing. Also, anyone who insists on claiming that homosexuals were part of the Holocaust is simply being dishonest. A maximum of 2000 homosexuals were sent to the camps out of about 700,000 in the Third Reich, and the real number may have been as low as a few hundred - and remember that genuine criminals were also sent to the camps so it's likely that these were guilty of child-abuse. A German historian has argued convincingly that Hitler himself was homosexual, and that this was the real reason that Ernst Rohm was murdered - because he knew where the bodies were buried. The SS had a lot of time for the idea of 'heroic homosexuality' which they (wrongly) associated with Ancient Greece. In any event there were vastly more homosexuals in the ranks of the SS than were ever sent to the camps. I recommend the book _Genocide_ by William Rubinstein.

  • @davidkuperman2390
    @davidkuperman2390 Місяць тому

    I've known this for decades. Eugenics was very popular in pre-war Europe and the United States. In fact, many famous Americans supported it, including Judge Louis Brandeis. But Sweden, under Social Democrats, was the only country that actually implemented it, apart from Nazi Germany. Forceful sterilization of women deemed "feeble-minded," punitive institutiolizations, and even euthanasia.

  • @Akatosh-r4c
    @Akatosh-r4c Місяць тому

    This doesn't surprise me one bit