Eugenics

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Eugenics

• How it affected Hitler.

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Eugenics how Darwin started it all

• Eugenics started with Darwins theory of natural
  selection
• The natural selection theories meant the fittest
  survived

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Where eugenics occurred during the holocaust

• The idea of eugenics started with Darwin and
  became popular in Germany.
• Eugenics spread across Europe and into North
  America when Hitler ruled.

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Margaret Sanger

• Margaret Sanger was influential in America during
  the Holocaust.
• She was the spokeswoman for contraception.
• Placed abortion clinics in bad areas with
  minorities so they would not have children.

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W. Davenport

• Davenport was a known eugenicist and zoologist.
• Worked as a professor at the university of
  Chicago.
• Headed a station for experimental evolution. in
  New York.

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Hitlers fascination with Eugenics

• Hitler wanted a pure and prime race similar to
  the Nordic race.
• Hitler got rid of anyone who did not fit his
  strict criteria for a perfect race.
• Hitler targeted the old, crippled, and mentally
  unfit.