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And the people that funded the "anthropology" research of the nazis were... Americans. The "Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugen
by 29athrowaway 4y ago
And the people that funded the "anthropology" research of the nazis were... Americans.
The "Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics" (KWIA for short) was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. Without that funding, it would have closed during the Great Depression.
The eugenics programs of the nazis were inspired by American eugenics programs. The segregationism of the nazis was inspired by Jim Crow. Concentration camps were inspired by Indian reservations. And the list goes on and on.
And among all this shit you have "The blood of the nation, a study of the decay of races through the survival of the unfit" by David Starr Jordan, founding president of Stanford University: https://archive.org/details/bloodofnationstu00jorduoft https://archive.org/details/bloodofnationstu00jorduoft
What do you think that happened after that book was published? was he criticized? No, the guy was honored by multiple universities in the US.
IBM and other American companies also had their part in facilitating the atrocities of WW2.
America was in many ways a disgusting place in the early 20th century. Especially California, where most of the eugenicists came from, and where at least 20,000 forced sterilizations took place between 1909 and 1979. That's right, fucking 1979.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_California https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_California