Eugenics: Nazi Creation

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Eugenics contrary to popular opinion was not a Nazi creation. The principle that the white race was superior was widely accepted in America and Europe during the 19th and early 20th century. After Darwin published his theory on evolution, writers in America and Europe developed a new science called eugenics. Francis Galton originally developed eugenics, as a modern concept. He was Charles Darwin’s half-cousin. Eugenics is not so much a science as it is a social arrogance. It is scientific racism, defective, and yet, still very much of a concept in today’s world.
Eugenics reached its way of thinking in Nazi Germany; Adolf Hitler was one of the many, who adopted the practice of eugenics. Unlike the United States, Germany took the idea of eugenics,