MEMBER BLOG TAG: peter novak
| Saturday, December 19, 2009 8:26AM | | | | Can We Learn from the Nazi Period? | Tags: Eugenics, Nazis, Lorenz, Peter Novak
| | | I do not think there is any question of the historical and intellectual links between breeding and eugenics, which culminated in Nazi Germany. The entire concept of pure breeds was originally developed in relation to animal breeding and later extended to people. Prominent Nazis from Alfred Rosenberg to Konrad Lorenz constantly remarked on they found it terribly ironic that people were more concerned with the pedigree of donkeys or dogs than human beings. The entire project of recreating the primal Aryan race can easily be seen as application of the techniques developed in breeding animals to human beings. But I have gone over this subject many times before and, as I will explain shortly, am weary... | | | | | |
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