I watched this documentary last night on PBS. It was absolutely disturbing. The obsession in the US with "perfect" children which was very pervasive through much of the first half of the 20th century -- even lasting partly through the 1960's and early 1970's
Hitler was very much inspired by the eugenics movement. He loved the western tv shows, whereby white cowboys exterminated the "REDSKINS". Tho emancipated black American citizens were the first cowboys, one would never know it thru our educational system. In fact it was a black cowboy who saved the bison from total extirpation, gathering 100 of the beasts for protection.
Read "War Against The Weak" by Edwin Black if you want to read more on it. It talks about American Eugenics and corporations and the American rich and politicians including the Bush family connections to Harriman.
I just watched it too. To think that it was Americans who inspired Hitler is amazing.
Shamefully, groups of Americans traveled to Germany to help Hitler in setting up his own eugenics program. The idea of gas ovens was hatched right here in the US.
But by all means, let’s not talk about that.
and that is why those of us born in the mid 60s are so damn perfect
LOL
I read a book a while back about how, in the 1950s, people demanded that doctors do all kinds of awful things to make girls shorter and boys taller, up to and including having their sons' legs broken and re-set with Ilizarov(sp?) appliances, a painful and protracted procedure rife with infection.