Racial hygiene
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The term racial hygiene was used to describe an approach to eugenics in the early 20th century, which found its most extensive implementation in Nazi Germany. It was marked by efforts to avoid miscege
International Hygiene Exhibition, 1911 promotional poster
Poster for the Hygiene Congress in Hamburg, 1912
Eva Justin checking the facial characteristics of a Romani woman, as part of her racial studies
Alfred Ploetz introduced the term "racial hygiene" in 1895.
Nazi eugenics
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The social policies of eugenics in Nazi Germany were composed of various ideas about genetics. The racial ideology of Nazism placed the biological improvement of the German people by selective breedin
Eugenics poster at the exhibition Wonders of Life in Berlin in 1935 showing demographic projections under the assumption of higher fertility of the "inferior" (Minderwertige) relative to the "superior" (Höherwertige)
Hitler's order for Action T4
Propaganda for Nazi Germany's T-4 Euthanasia Program: "This person suffering from hereditary defects costs the community 60,000 Reichsmark during his lifetime. Fellow German, that is your money, too." from the Office of Racial Policy's Neues Volk.
Gas chamber in Hadamar