Did the mass horror of Nazi Germany diminish John Maynard Keynes' love of eugenics ? No. Even near his death he was still a big believer according to Phillip W. Magness and Sean J. Hernandez.
On February 14, 1946, two months before his death, John Maynard Keynes offered hisWhat better proof than this that the political spectrum sold in American political science classes is a fraud?
endorsement of “the most important, significant and, I would add, genuine branch of sociology which
exists, namely eugenics.”1 His remarks occurred at an award dinner of the British Eugenics Society
(BES), where Keynes had recently served as Vice President for 7 years. The occasion was the
presentation of a medal to Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders, director of the London School of Economics and
a prominent eugenicist in his own right.
