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“The Germans are Beating us at our own Game”: American Eugenics and the German Sterilization Law of 1933

Klautke, EF; (2016) “The Germans are Beating us at our own Game”: American Eugenics and the German Sterilization Law of 1933. History of the Human Sciences , 29 (3) pp. 25-43. 10.1177/0952695116631230. Green open access

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Abstract

This article re-interprets the connection between American 'mainline' eugenicists and German 'race hygienist' through the prism of the German Sterilization Law of 1933; it shows the 'normality' of this relationship, and its importance for the slow demise of eugenics after 1945.

Type: Article
Title: “The Germans are Beating us at our own Game”: American Eugenics and the German Sterilization Law of 1933
Location: UK
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1177/0952695116631230
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695116631230
Language: English
Additional information: © 2016 SAGE Publications The is an author's accepted manuscript of an article accepted for publication in History of the Human Sciences.
Keywords: Germany, USA, Eugenics, Sterilization, Race Hygiene
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > SSEES
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1471934
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