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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 465

eugenics

Caskets containing bones found on the grounds of the Freie Universitat, Free University are lowered into the ground for burial, at the Waldfriedhof in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, March 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
March 24, 2023, 7:59 am
Bones kept by German former eugenics institute buried in Berlin
16,000 fragments likely include remains from victims of Nazi crimes, along with members of Namibia’s Herero people killed in a colonial-era massacre
By Geir Moulson
'The Rising Tide of Color,' published by Lothrop Stoddard in 1920 (public domain)
January 18, 2021, 10:44 pm
The 1920s white supremacist influencer beloved by president Harding – and Hitler
Historian Lothrop Stoddard helped found ‘Nordic’ movement to battle ‘the rising tide of color’ in US and abroad, but was laughed off stage in debate with Black thinker Du Bois
By Matt Lebovic
Charles Holt wipe tears from his eyes during a Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation task force compensation hearing in Raleigh, North Carolina, June 22, 2011 (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)
August 29, 2020, 1:05 pm
Nazi sterilization was modeled on laws in force in Indiana and California
Nazis sterilized 400,000 children and adults, mostly Jews and others labeled ‘defective,’ based on the bogus ‘science’ of eugenics; US polices lasted into 21st century
By alexandra minna stern
US President Donald Trump speaks at Ford's Rawsonville Components Plant that has been converted to making personal protection and medical equipment on May 21, 2020, in Ypsilanti, Michigan. (AP/Alex Brandon)
May 22, 2020, 9:45 am
Trump lauds notorious anti-Semite Henry Ford’s ‘good bloodlines’
Anti-Defamation League calls on US president to apologize for extolling American industrialist who printed copies of ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ and inspired Hitler
By Eric Cortellessa
Dr. Margaret Mead, anthropologist, visits with friends on a field trip to Bali, Indonesia, in 1957. (AP Photo)
February 21, 2020, 4:29 pm
How a 19th century progressive Jewish scientist’s ideas beat out racist eugenics
National Jewish Book Award-winner Charles King’s ‘Gods of the Upper Air’ tells how a cohort of women scholars helped Franz Boaz give birth to the field of anthropology
By Rich Tenorio
New York Times op-ed columnist Bret Stephens. (Jason Smith via JTA)
December 30, 2019, 9:35 am
NYT cuts dubious study from op-ed seemingly arguing Jewish genetic superiority
Newspaper says it was unaware of the views of the study’s author, despite having previously run an article denouncing his promotion of ‘racist stereotypes’
By ToI Staff
New York Times op-ed columnist Bret Stephens. (Jason Smith via JTA)
December 29, 2019, 3:00 pm
Outcry after NYT writer appears to argue Ashkenazi Jews are genetically smarter
In Friday column, Bret Stephens links to 2005 study on Jewish intelligence by controversial scholars tied to white nationalist groups
By ToI Staff
Jeffrey Epstein, center, is shown in custody in West Palm Beach, Florida on July 30, 2008 (Uma Sanghvi/Palm Beach Post via AP, File)
August 1, 2019, 9:27 am
Report: Epstein wanted to spread his DNA by impregnating 20 women at his ranch
NY financier accused of sex trafficking of minors was interested in eugenics, would surround himself with top scientists who entertained his ‘half-baked’ ideas, New York Times says
By ToI Staff and Agencies
A float advertising the incubator show. (Courtesy Dawn Raffel)
September 30, 2018, 4:07 am
As hospitals prematurely spurned incubators, this carnival showman saved lives
A new book details how, despite his bunk credentials, ‘Dr.’ Martin Arthur Couney successfully nurtured thousands of preemie babies back to health on the sideshow midways of America
By Rich Tenorio
This photo from April 6, 2017, shows Old Main on the University of Arizona campus in Tucson, Arizona. (Ron Medvescek/Arizona Daily Star via AP)
August 25, 2018, 3:07 am
University of Arizona accepted $458K from eugenics fund
Professor who received money insists he doesn’t believe in idea of racial inferiority, says he wouldn’t take funds if he thought he ‘was doing harm’
By Michael Kunzelman
Pope Francis gives a speech to the National Congress of the Italian Masters of Labor Federation, in Aula Paolo VI at the Vatican, on June 15, 2018. (AFP Photo/Andreas Solaro)
June 16, 2018, 8:39 pm
Pope: Abortion is ‘white glove’ equivalent to Nazi crimes
Pontiff likens practice to Nazi-era eugenics program to ‘purify the race,’ urges families to accept kids that God gives them
By AP
Illustrative: Young people hold pictures of children murdered at the city hospital under the Nazi euthanasia program of the physically or mentally handicapped, and their brains and other remains then used for decades for medical research, during a public service in Vienna's Central Cemetery where the last two specimens are buried, April 28, 2002. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
April 19, 2018, 11:52 am
Dr. Asperger ‘actively cooperated’ with Nazis, study says
Pioneering pediatrician ‘publicly legitimized race hygiene policies including forced sterilizations,’ and sent children to their deaths, according to new research
By AFP
Steve Bannon at a meeting with advisers at Trump Tower, Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
February 10, 2017, 11:12 am
Bannon ‘wanted to make Nazi movie with Mel Gibson’
Trump’s top aide reportedly discussed documentary-style film on racial purity, contraception and Darwinism with actor-director
By ToI Staff
Notorious Nazi physician Josef Mengele as a young doctor and the 'ramp' at Auschwitz-Birkenau in May of 1944, where Mengele sometimes selected inmates for life, death or 'experimentation' (Public domain)
October 27, 2016, 12:02 pm
The long, twisted shadow cast by Nazi medical experiments
Seven decades after Nazi camp inmates were tortured in the name of medical research, it is increasingly clear the experimentation was conducted by scientists well beyond known ‘Nazi hacks and SS quacks’
By Matt Lebovic
A mother cradles her new born baby in the Kovno ghetto hospital. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of George Kadish/Zvi Kadushin)
May 5, 2016, 10:55 am
Groundbreaking study exhumes untold Nazi brutalization of women’s bodies
Author Beverley Chalmers says we owe it to victims and survivors to know the unspeakable crimes — including rape, experimentation and forced abortion — committed against them
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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