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Title: 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.
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