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Population Policy Vs Nazi Eugenics

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In the next few pages I will cover some questions that were raised in regards to eugenics. I will describe what eugenics is, what policies were generated to create the ideal population, and also the differences between birth control and population factoring in the perspective of eugenics. We will ask about the similarities between the Nazi and the U. S eugenic policies, since eugenic was first started within the United States from early 1900 until World War II and was then implemented and passed on in Germany by Adolf Hitler.
Eugenics is a law created to control sex and population to ensure the best quality of a specific population, it is viewed as a public good by focusing on a certain group of people (Solinger, 1947: page 7). Also, eugenics is the use of scientific languages to push an ideology and population control policies. In the ninetieth century there was scientific racism and social Darwinism. In Hitler’s Aryan (Light skinned, colored eyes with blond hair) ideology the strong, blond men were the warriors and the leaders of the German nation, while women were their flexible and similarly healthy women stayed home to achieve the function that biology has chosen for them to do. This was in part dictated by the racial essentials and was mainly linked to his fear of falling birthrate among Aryans. Mothers that gave birth to three or …show more content…

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