To write War Against the Weak, Edwin Black led a team of fifty researchers in dozens of archives in four countries, generating some 50,000 documents. It eventually caught the fascination of Adolf Hitler. Through international academic exchanges, American eugenicists exported the movement worldwide. The victims of eugenics were poor white people from New England to California, immigrants from across Europe, Blacks, Jews, Mexicans, Native Americans, epileptics, alcoholics, petty criminals, the mentally ill, and anyone else who did not resemble the blond and blue-eyed Nordic ideal the eugenics movement glorified. states, and the supporters of eugenics included such progressive thinkers as Woodrow Wilson, Margaret Sanger, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. Cruel and racist laws were enacted in twenty-seven U.S. Perhaps more shocking - eugenics was sanctioned by the Sup0reme Court. Their methods: forced sterilization, human breeding programs, marriage prohibition, and even passive euthanasia. Funded by America's leading corporate philanthropies, such as the Carnegie Institution and the Rockefeller Foundation, and entrenched in classrooms across America, eugenicists sought to eliminate social "undesirables. scientists launched an ambitious new race-based movement that was championed by our nation's social, political, and academic elite. It started in 1904, when a small group of U.S. Ultimately, over 60,000 "unfit" Americans were coercively sterilized, a third of them after Nuremberg declared such practices crimes against humanity. Based on selective breeding of human beings, eugenics began in laboratories on Long Island, but it ended in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. In War Against the Weak, award-winning investigative journalist Edwin Black connects the crimes of the Nazis to a pseudoscientific American movement of the early twentieth century called eugenics. The explosive true story of America's century-long attempt to create a master race - by the author of the New York Times bestseller IBM and the Holocaust. Index admin Site Admin Posts: 33918 Joined: Thu 5:21 am.O CHAPTER 6: The United States of Sterilization To my mother who at present is unable to read this book, but who still remembers when American principles of eugenics came to Nazi-occupied Poland. THANK YOU FOR RESPECTING THE RIGHTS OF COPYRIGHT OWNERS. ADDRESS AT WHICH THE UNLAWFUL COPYING APPEARED TO HAVE OCCURRED. IN THE EVENT THAT THE LIBRARY DETERMINES THAT UNLAWFUL COPYING OF THIS WORK HAS OCCURRED, THE LIBRARY HAS THE RIGHT TO BLOCK THE I.P. YOU ARE REQUIRED TO READ THE COPYRIGHT NOTICE AT THIS LINK BEFORE YOU READ THE FOLLOWING WORK, THAT IS AVAILABLE SOLELY FOR PRIVATE STUDY, SCHOLARSHIP OR RESEARCH PURSUANT TO 17 U.S.C.