IBM helped the nazis

wkmac

Well-Known Member
Hitler and his henchmen victimized an entire continent and exterminated millions in his quest for a co-called "Master Race." But the concept of a white, blond-haired, blue-eyed master Nordic race didn't originate with Hitler. The idea was created in the United States, and cultivated in California, decades before Hitler came to power. California eugenicists played an important, although little known, role in the American eugenics movement's campaign for ethnic cleansing.
Eugenics was the racist pseudoscience determined to wipe away all human beings deemed "unfit," preserving only those who conformed to a Nordic stereotype. Elements of the philosophy were enshrined as national policy by forced sterilization and segregation laws, as well as marriage restrictions, enacted in twenty-seven states. In 1909, California became the third state to adopt such laws. Ultimately, eugenics practitioners coercively sterilized some 60,000 Americans, barred the marriage of thousands, forcibly segregated thousands in "colonies," and persecuted untold numbers in ways we are just learning. Before World War II, nearly half of coercive sterilizations were done in California, and even after the war, the state accounted for a third of all such surgeries.
California was considered an epicenter of the American eugenics movement. During the Twentieth Century's first decades, California's eugenicists included potent but little known race scientists, such as Army venereal disease specialist Dr. Paul Popenoe, citrus magnate and Polytechnic benefactor Paul Gosney, Sacramento banker Charles M. Goethe, as well as members of the California State Board of Charities and Corrections and the University of California Board of Regents.

Dark American Secrets Buried by Mythology

Judges at Nuremberg began to raise questions about eugenics research until a defense attorney pointed out doing so risked that evidence would be presented of how the American eugenics programs were the scientific influence and thus the issue was set aside to the dustbins of history.

The modern field and term were first formulated by Sir Francis Galton in 1883,[SUP][18][/SUP] drawing on the recent work of his half-cousin Charles Darwin.[SUP][19][/SUP][SUP][20][/SUP] At its peak of popularity eugenics was supported by a wide variety of prominent people, including Winston Churchill,[SUP][21][/SUP] Margaret Sanger,[SUP][22][/SUP][SUP][23][/SUP] Marie Stopes, H. G. Wells, Theodore Roosevelt, George Bernard Shaw, John Maynard Keynes, John Harvey Kellogg, Linus Pauling[SUP][24][/SUP] and Sidney Webb.[SUP][25][/SUP][SUP][26][/SUP][SUP][27][/SUP] Many members of the American Progressive Movement supported eugenics, seduced by its scientific trappings and its promise of a quick end to social ills. Its most infamous proponent and practitioner was, however, Adolf Hitler who praised and incorporated eugenic ideas in Mein Kampf and emulated Eugenic legislation for the sterilization of "defectives" that had been pioneered in the United States.[SUP][28][/SUP]

Eugenics
 

wkmac

Well-Known Member
I don't know if the article is representing the overall truth, but you have to be blind not to see similarities with the Nazi system, after all we shipped 3000 scientists over here from there. The big difference it is going global with free speech, with "elections" --} same direction with each presidents.

The birth of Operation Paperclip

[video=youtube;IKlQGKg1sa4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKlQGKg1sa4[/video]
 

Catatonic

Nine Lives
I remember hearing about this in my teens ... so some 40 years ago.

Of course, the internet helps bring it to more people. Back then, it was underground magazines and newspapers.

The Germans needed the ability to catalog people and their characteristics as I remember.

The Germans have always been about efficiency and productivity.
 

wkmac

Well-Known Member
I remember hearing about this in my teens ... so some 40 years ago.

Of course, the internet helps bring it to more people. Back then, it was underground magazines and newspapers.

The Germans needed the ability to catalog people and their characteristics as I remember.

The Germans have always been about efficiency and productivity.

Sounds like the dept. at work known as I.....no, no, no I better not say it!

:wink2:

I wonder if Frederick Taylor's name is on any of those lists?
:laughing:
 
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