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This article was about eugenics and how its highly related to Nazism. Eugenics is the idea of manipulating human genes to the end of improving individuals, groups or an entire population. The word eugenics comes from the Greek word eu (good or well) and the suffix -genes (born), was redined by Sir Francis Galton in 1883. In the past eugenics was almost the same as Nazism for several reasons. Nazism is trying to make one elite race or one type. Eugenics were looked as trying to make one certain race of ‘perfect’ humans. Early eugenicists were mostly concerned with perceived intelligence factors that often related strongly with social class.

Edwin Black is author of IBM and the Holocaust which is about the Holocaust and Hitler’s plan for a ultimate breed of humans. He talked about how African Americans and immigrants from eastern and southern Europe were being taken and discriminated against. In many states interracial marriage was illegal in the U.S. Black also collected......

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