Better For All The World
Caught an interesting interview on The Bob Edwards Show this AM. Edwards interviewed Harry Brunius, author of Better For All The World: The Secret History of Forced Sterilization and America’s Quest for Racial Purity.
Brunius tells the story of eugenics in the US and the attempt to eliminate so-called “undesirable” traits in the population, usually via forced sterilization. Such “undesirable” characteristics included epilepsy, genetic disorders, and mixed races. The US eugenics movement reached its pinnacle in the 1920s and 30s.
The US eugenics experience became the model for Nazi Germany’s eugenics program.
