Eugenics
Where each worldview places it
A lecture subject at the 1916 Rose Cross convocation and taught by its Sacred College[1]. In a Third Reich documentary Cooper airs, "an unlikely union between the teachings of a modern scientific movement and the esoteric doctrines of the occult" produced Nazism, and the United States pioneered the eugenic laws the Nazis copied[2].
- Aliases
- racial hygiene
- Controls / directs
- evolved into the Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring (1933)[2]
- Answers to / controlled by
- founded by Francis GaltonIndiana passed the first sterilization law (1907)Hitler read a racial hygiene textbook in prison (1924)[2]
- Lineage
- Galton → US laws → Weimar → Nazi laws, the Race and Resettlement Bureau and Lebensborn[2]
- Dates
- 1907
- 1924
- 1930 (28 US states)
- 1933
- 1934 (56,000 sterilizations)
- 1935[2]
- Places
- Key events
- —
- Members / notable people
- Grace Kincaid Morey and Clara Witt (Rose Cross lecturers)[3]
- Author's claims
- —