The Eugenics Movement in Nazi Germany
5 min readDec 29, 2020
The eugenics movement was based on the idea that one could strengthen a specific biological group by evaluating an individual’s hereditary worth and determining if they would produce strong offspring. These beliefs matched well “with the German concept of racial hygiene” which aimed to purify the German race.
The term “racial hygiene” was created by a German doctor named Alfred Plotz in 1895. He…