Eugenics is a social philosophy which advocates the improvement of human hereditary traits through various forms of intervention. The purported goals have variously been to create healthier, more intelligent people, save society's resources, and lessen human suffering.
From 1933 to 1945 Nazi Germany carried out a campaign to cleanse German society of individuals viewed as biological threats to the nations health Enlisting the help of medically trained professionals the Nazis developed racial
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In 1910 the Eugenics Record Office was founded in Cold Spring Harbor New York as a center for the study of human heredity and a repository for genetic data on human traits It merged with the Station for Experimental Evolution in 1920 to become the Dep
