New exhibition exposes Nazi eugenics program

Pioneer Press reports on the new eugenics exhibition. Here's the story from exhibition curator Susan Bachrach:

she found some American institutions such as the Museum of Natural History in New York and the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota to be uncooperative during her research. These institutions signed onto eugenics theory at one time and would rather forget their history, she said.

"When it comes to eugenics, there's a huge whitewash that continues to go on," she said. "The United States was very strong in the eugenics movement and that can be seen in state sterilization laws."

"Deadly Science" covers much of this ground and a lot more. As long ago as 1927 and as far away from Germany as Virginia, Carrie Buck was sterilized after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Virginia law allowing sterilization of persons judged to be "feebleminded."

Here's more on the American aspects of this.