что американцу нипочом, то немцу -- смерть :)

I read a bit about one of Sanger’s contemporaries, Madison Grant and his advocacy of the Nordic Theory, which became the basis of Nazi Germany’s Aryan race programs – Adolph Hitler himself calling  Grant’s book, The Passing of the Great Race, his “bible”.


But what struck me was the fact that Grant’s book was not only admired in post World War One Germany, but was enormously popular in the United States, reportedly selling 1.6 million copies between 1916 and 1937.  It is hard not to believe that Sanger was not familiar with Grant’s work, and it is hard not to hear echos of Grant in Sanger’s feelings on immigration and “undesirables” expressed in her belief in negative eugenics.

любопытно, что Джеферсон действительно торговал рабами, а Грант (и не только он 1) был расистом, но на общей приверженности США демократии и свободе это не сказалось, а вот немцам вышло боком

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