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"In the 1920s and 1930s, advocates for eugenics made claims that genes influenced human behavior, but with no valid evidence from studies of the genome itself. To help realize their utopian dreams, they turned to politics - most successfully in Germany where the Nazis adopted their ideas. But the German eugenicists paid a price for this support - the need to justify and promote the Nazis' violent anti-semitism." "In this book, the distinguished German geneticist Benno Muller-Hill documents the terrible collaboration which ended in the mass murder of millions, and warns against the misuse…
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1 edition- Other · English · 1998Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press · 256 pages · 9780879695316
HistoryScience and stateGenocideWorld War, 1939-1945AtrocitiesHuman experimentation in medicineWorld war ii - social aspectsWar crimes






