Theories of eugenics or "racial hygiene" were widely accepted throughout the world in the early twentieth century, and they were popular with German scientists and medical professionals when the Nazis rose to power in 1933. Ideas of “racial hygiene” inspired Nazi racial ideology and many of the regime’s policies, including forcible sterilizations and the systematic murder of people with disabilities.
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Family Life During the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust"But Who Are You?"
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Public Health under the Third Reich
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust"The English Disease"
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Targets of Eugenics
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule"What You Inherit"
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Family Life During the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustBrochure for the Lebensborn Program
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Nazi Ideals and American Society
Americans and the HolocaustEugenics Charts from the Kansas Free Fair
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Roma and Sinti in Nazi Germany
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleFilm of Sinti Children at Catholic Children's Home
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Targets of Eugenics
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleGerman Motherhood Medals
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Nazi Propaganda and National Unity
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleLeaflet Advertising Nazi Magazine Neues Volk
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Nazi Ideals and American Society
Americans and the HolocaustLetter from Dr. Harry H. Laughlin to Dr. Carl Schneider
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Targets of Eugenics
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleLetter to SS Doctor Gregor Ebner
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American Witnesses and the Third Reich
Americans and the HolocaustLothrop Stoddard: "In a Eugenics Court"
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Roma and Sinti in Nazi Germany
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleOral History with Rita Prigmore
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Targets of Eugenics
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleOral History with Robert Wagemann
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Roma and Sinti in Nazi Germany
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RulePhotograph of Theresia Winterstein and Gabriel Reinhardt
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Medical Care, Nazism, and the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustRequest to Replace Nurse Anna Hölzer
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Targets of Eugenics
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleSelf-Portrait by Franz Karl Bühler
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Targets of Eugenics
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleSign Language Testimony of Helga Gross
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Targets of Eugenics
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleSterilization Order for August Alzen