Adolf Hitler Quotes


It would have been more to the point, more honest and more Christian, in past decades not to support those who intentionally destroyed healthy life than to rebel against those who have no other wish than to avoid disease. Moreover, a policy of laissez faire in this sphere is not only cruelty to the individual guiltless victims but also to the nation as a whole... If the Churches were to declare themselves ready to take over the treatment and care of those suffering from hereditary diseases, we should be quite ready to refrain from sterilizing them.


Citations

Hitler, Adolf. "Speech to the Reichstag." 30 Jan. 1934, Berlin. Quoted in Baynes, Norman H., ed. The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939. Vol. 1, Oxford University Press, 1942, p. 386.

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The Eugenics Record Office was an activist organization advocating the forced sterilization of those people who they deemed to be inferior from a hereditary point of view. Most Americans are today shocked to find that this organization and its ideas were so influential that more than 30 states had passed similar laws. Only California and Virginia however were zealous in carrying them out . By 1935, 20,000 forced sterilizations had been carried out in the United States. The Supreme Court at the time even found such laws Constitutional. See {603680}.


Slogan of State Eugenics Movement to have “desirable” parents have more children and “undesirable” potential parents to be sterilized and prevented from having children – especially racially mixed couples as then defined. The eugenics enthusiasts got embedded in American culture although their understanding of genetics and heredity was totally wrong and unscientific. 60,000 Americans were strerilized against their will between 1923 and 1981


Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
  • Born: April 20, 1889
  • Died: April 30, 1945
  • Nationality: German
  • Profession: Politician

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming Chancellor in 1933 and then assuming the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934. During his dictatorship from 1933 to 1945, he initiated World War II in Europe by invading Poland on 1 September 1939. He was closely involved in military operations throughout the war and was central to the perpetration of the Holocaust, the genocide of about 6 million Jews and millions of other victims.