the War against the Weak/the author of IBM and the Holocaust

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Today they use implants and death rays to augment accelerated death.The

bastards maybe 10 million medical doctors,freemasons and members of

Greek fraternities.

 

 

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Eventually, America's eugenic movement spread to Germany as well,

where it caught the fascination of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement.

Under Hitler, eugenics careened beyond any American eugenicist's

dream. National Socialism transduced America's quest for a

" superior Nordic race " into Hitler's drive for an " Aryan

master race. " The Nazis were fond of saying " National Socialism

is nothing but applied biology, " and in 1934 the Richmond

Times-Dispatch quoted a prominent American eugenicist as saying,

" The Germans are beating us at our own game. "

 

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Introduction

Voices haunt the pages of every book. This particular book, however,

speaks for the never-born, for those whose questions have never been

heard—for those who never existed.

Throughout the first six decades of the twentieth century, hundreds of

thousands of Americans and untold numbers of others were not permitted

to continue their families by reproducing. Selected because of their

ancestry, national origin, race or religion, they were forcibly

sterilized, wrongly committed to mental institutions where they died in

great numbers, prohibited from marrying, and sometimes even unmarried by

state bureaucrats. In America, this battle to wipe out whole ethnic

groups was fought not by armies with guns nor by hate sects at the

margins. Rather, this pernicious white-gloved war was prosecuted by

esteemed professors, elite universities, wealthy industrialists and

government officials colluding in a racist, pseudoscientific movement

called eugenics. The purpose: create a superior Nordic race. To

perpetuate the campaign, widespread academic fraud combined with almost

unlimited corporate philanthropy to establish the biological rationales

for

persecution. Employing a hazy amalgam of guesswork, gossip, falsified

information and polysyllabic academic arrogance, the eugenics movement

slowly constructed a national bureaucratic and juridical infrastructure

to cleanse America of its " unfit. " Specious intelligence tests,

colloquially known as IQ tests, were invented to justify incarceration

of a group labeled " feebleminded. " Often the so-called

feebleminded were just shy, too good-natured to be taken seriously, or

simply spoke the wrong language or were the wrong color. Mandatory

sterilization laws were enacted in some twenty-seven states to prevent

targeted individuals from reproducing more of their kind. Marriage

prohibition laws proliferated throughout the country to stop race

mixing. Collusive litigation was taken to the U.S. Supreme Court, which

sanctified eugenics and its tactics. The goal was to immediately

sterilize fourteen million people in the United States and millions more

worldwide—the " lower

tenth " —and then continuously eradicate the remaining lowest tenth

until only a pure Nordic super race remained. Ultimately, some 60,000

Americans were coercively sterilized and the total is probably much

higher. No one knows how many marriages were thwarted by state felony

statutes. Although much of the persecution was simply racism, ethnic

hatred and academic elitism, eugenics wore the mantle of respectable

science to mask its true character. The victims of eugenics were poor

urban dwellers and rural " white trash " from New England to

California, immigrants from across Europe, Blacks, Jews, Mexicans,

Native Americans, epileptics, alcoholics, petty criminals, the mentally

ill and anyone else who did not resemble the blond and blue-eyed Nordic

ideal the eugenics movement glorified. Eugenics contaminated many

otherwise worthy social, medical and educational causes from the birth

control movement to the development of psychology to urban sanitation.

Psychologists

persecuted their patients. Teachers stigmatized their students.

Charitable associations clamored to send those in need of help to lethal

chambers they hoped would be constructed. Immigration assistance bureaus

connived to send the most needy to sterilization mills. Leaders of the

ophthalmology profession conducted a long and chilling political

campaign to round up and coercively sterilize every relative of every

American with a vision problem. All of this churned throughout America

years before the Third Reich rose in Germany. Eugenics targeted all

mankind, so of course its scope was global. American eugenic evangelists

spawned similar movements and practices throughout Europe, Latin America

and Asia. Forced sterilization laws and regimens took root on every

continent. Each local American eugenic ordinance or statute—from

Virginia to Oregon—was promoted internationally as yet another

precedent to be emulated by the international movement. A tightly-knit

network of

mainstream medical and eugenical journals, international meetings and

conferences kept the generals and soldiers of eugenics up to date and

armed for their nation's next legislative opportunity. Eventually,

America's eugenic movement spread to Germany as well, where it

caught the fascination of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement. Under

Hitler, eugenics careened beyond any American eugenicist's dream.

National Socialism transduced America's quest for a " superior

Nordic race " into Hitler's drive for an " Aryan master

race. " The Nazis were fond of saying " National Socialism is

nothing but applied biology, " and in 1934 the Richmond

Times-Dispatch quoted a prominent American eugenicist as saying,

" The Germans are beating us at our own game. " Nazi eugenics

quickly outpaced American eugenics in both velocity and ferocity. In the

1930s, Germany assumed the lead in the international movement.

Hitler's eugenics was backed by brutal decrees, custom-designed IBM

data

processing machines, eugenical courts, mass sterilization mills,

concentration camps, and virulent biological anti-Semitism—all of

which enjoyed the open approval of leading American eugenicists and

their institutions. The cheering quieted, but only reluctantly, when the

United States entered the war in December of 1941. Then, out of sight of

the world, Germany's eugenic warriors operated extermination

centers. Eventually, Germany's eugenic madness led to the Holocaust,

the destruction of the Gypsies, the rape of Poland and the decimation of

all Europe. But none of America's far-reaching scientific racism

would have risen above ignorant rants without the backing of corporate

philanthropic largess. Within these pages you will discover the sad

truth of how the scientific rationales that drove killer doctors at

Auschwitz were first concocted on Long Island at the Carnegie

Institution's eugenic enterprise at Cold Spring Harbor. You will see

that during the prewar

Hitler regime, the Carnegie Institution, through its Cold Spring Harbor

complex, enthusiastically propagandized for the Nazi regime and even

distributed anti-Semitic Nazi Party films to American high schools. And

you will see the links between the Rockefeller Foundation's massive

financial grants and the German scientific establishment that began the

eugenic programs that were finished by Mengele at Auschwitz. Only after

the truth about Nazi extermination became known did the American

eugenics movement fade. American eugenic institutions rushed to change

their names from eugenics to genetics. With its new identity, the

remnant eugenics movement reinvented itself and helped establish the

modern, enlightened human genetic revolution. Although the rhetoric and

the organizational names had changed, the laws and mindsets were left in

place. So for decades after Nuremberg labeled eugenic methods genocide

and crimes against humanity, America continued to forcibly sterilize

and prohibit eugenically undesirable marriages. I began by saying this

book speaks for the never-born. It also speaks for the hundreds of

thousands of Jewish refugees who attempted to flee the Hitler regime

only to be denied visas to enter the United States because of the

Carnegie Institution's openly racist anti-immigrant activism.

Moreover, these pages demonstrate how millions were murdered in Europe

precisely because they found themselves labeled lesser forms of life,

unworthy of existence—a classification created in the publications

and academic research rooms of the Carnegie Institution, verified by the

research grants of the Rockefeller Foundation, validated by leading

scholars from the best Ivy League universities, and financed by the

special efforts of the Harriman railroad fortune. Eugenics was nothing

less than corporate philanthropy gone wild. Today we are faced with a

potential return to eugenic discrimination, not under national flags or

political credos, but as a function of human genomic science and

corporate globalization. Shrill declarations of racial dominance are

being replaced by polished PR campaigns and patent protections. What

eugenics was unable to accomplish in a century, newgenics may engineer

in a generation. The almighty dollar may soon decide who stands on which

side of a new genetic divide already being demarcated by the wealthy and

powerful. As we speed toward a new biological horizon, confronting our

eugenic past will help us confront the bewildering newgenic future that

awaits. I first became interested in eugenics while researching my

previous books, The Transfer Agreement and IBM and the Holocaust. The

Transfer Agreement, published in 1984, documented the tempestuous

worldwide anti-Nazi boycott, which included vigorous efforts to stop

American organizations from funding medical research. At the time I

could not understand why Nazi medical research was so important to

American

corporate philanthropists. The scope of eugenics escaped me. Then in

2000, while researching IBM and the Holocaust—which revealed

IBM's role in automating Germany's eugenic institutions—I

finally came to see that eugenics was a life and death proposition for

Europe's Jews. Yet I still didn't realize that this bizarre cult

of Nazi race science was organically linked to America. As I explored

the history of eugenics, however, I soon discovered that the Nazi

principle of Nordic superiority was not hatched in the Third Reich but

on Long Island decades earlier—and then actively transplanted to

Germany. How did it happen? Who was involved? To uncover the story I did

as I have done before and launched an international investigation. This

time, a network of dozens of researchers, mostly volunteers, working in

the United States, England, Germany and Canada unearthed some 50,000

documents and period publications from more than forty archives, dozens

of library special

collections and other repositories (see Major Sources). But unlike the

Holocaust field, in which the documentation is centralized in a number

of key archives, the information on eugenics is exceedingly

decentralized and buried deep within numerous local and niche

repositories. In the United States alone, the investigation brought my

team to the archival holdings of the American Philosophical Society in

Philadelphia, to the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island, to

Truman State University in northeastern Missouri, to numerous obscure

community colleges in the Appalachian states, and a long list of state

archives, county historical files and institutional archives where

personal papers and period materials are stored. I also spent much time

in many small, private libraries and archives, such as the one

maintained by Planned Parenthood. We examined records at the Rockefeller

Foundation and the Carnegie Institution. There are probably two hundred

important

repositories in America, many of them special collections and manuscript

departments of local libraries or universities. Because eugenics was

administered on the local level, every state probably possesses three to

five sites hosting important eugenic documentation. I only accessed a

few dozen of these across America. Much more needs to be done, and

American researchers will surely be kept busy for a decade mining the

information In England I visited the British Library, the Wellcome

Library, the University College of London, the Public Record Office and

other key archives. These not only provided the information on

Britain's eugenic campaigns, but also yielded copies of

correspondence with American eugenic organizations that are simply not

available in the American holdings. For example, strident propaganda

pamphlets long cleansed from American files are still stored in the

British records. Because the German and American wings collaborated so

closely, the

German archives clearly traced the development of German race hygiene as

it emulated the American program. More importantly, because the American

and German movements functioned as a binary, their leaders bragged to

one another and exchanged information constantly. Therefore I learned

much about America's record by examining Reich-era files. For

instance, although the number of individuals sterilized in Vermont has

eluded researchers in that state, the information is readily available

in the files of Nazi organizations. Moreover, obscure Nazi medical

literature reveals the Nazis' understanding of their American

partners. Probing the prodigious files of Nazi eugenics took my project

to the Bundesarchiv in Berlin and Koblenz, the Max Planck Institute in

Berlin, Heidelberg University and many other repositories in Germany.

When it was finished, the journey to discover America's eugenic

history had taken me from an austere highway warehouse in Vermont, where

the state's

official files are stacked right next to automotive supplies and

retrieved by forklift, to the architectonic British Library, to the

massive Bundesarchiv in Berlin—and every type of research

environment in between. Sometimes I sat on a chair in a reading room.

Sometimes I poked through boxes in a basement. Even still, I was not

prepared for the many profound built-in challenges to eugenic research.

My experiences are rooted in Holocaust investigation, where a

well-developed infrastructure is in place. Not so with eugenics. In

Holocaust research, archives facilitate unlimited speedy photocopying of

documents. The Public Record Office in London produces copies within

hours. The National Archives in Washington, D.C., allows self-service

photocopying. But the most important eugenic archive in Britain, storing

thousands of important documents, limits users to just one hundred

copies per year. America's largest eugenic archive, housing vast

numbers of papers in numerous

collections, limits researchers to just four hundred copies per year.

Often the beleaguered and understaffed copy departments in these

archives needed between three and four weeks to produce the copies. One

archive asked for three months to copy a ten-page document. Fortunately,

I was able to circumvent these restrictions by deploying teams of five

and ten researchers at these archives, and by virtue of the gracious and

indispensable flexibility of archivists who continuously assisted me in

this massive project (see Acknowledgments). Only by their special

efforts and indulgence was I able to secure as many as five thousand

copies from a single archive, and reasonably quickly—thus allowing

me to gain a comprehensive view of the topic and shorten my work by

years. Another profound obstacle has been the fallacious claim by many

document custodians, in both state and private archives, that the

records of those sterilized, incarcerated and otherwise manipulated by

the

eugenics movement are somehow protected under doctor-patient

confidentiality stretching back fifty to one hundred years. This notion

is a sham which only dignifies the crime. Legislation is needed to

dismantle such restrictions. No researcher should ever accept assertions

by any document custodian that such records are covered by

confidentiality protections accorded to medical procedures—whether

in Nazi Germany or the United States. The people persecuted by eugenics

were not patients, they were victims. No doctor-patient relationship was

established. Most of the unfortunate souls snared by eugenics were

deceived and seized upon by animal breeders, biologists,

anthropologists, raceologists and bureaucrats masquerading as medical

men. Mengele's victims were not patients. Nor were those in America

who were caught up in the fraudulent science of eugenics. In some

instances, records were initially denied to me on this basis.

Fortunately, the investigative reporter only

gets started when he hears the word no. I demanded full access and was

grateful when I received it. I applaud the State of Virginia for

allowing me to be the first to receive files on the infamous

sterilization of Carrie Buck; copies of those files are now in my

office. The international scope of the endeavor created a logistical

nightmare that depended on devoted researchers scouring files in many

cities. For months, I functioned as a traffic cop, managing editor and

travel coordinator while simultaneously dispatching researchers to

follow leads on both sides of the Atlantic. On the same day that one

group might be interviewing mountain people in the hills of Virginia,

another might be examining the personal papers of a police chief in

California, while another in Berlin scanned the financial records of the

Kaiser Wilhelm Institute to identify American financial assistance,

while still others reviewed the pamphlets of the Eugenics Society in

London. We were

as likely to scrutinize the visitor registers at the Kaiser Wilhelm

Institute's guest facility, Harnack House, to see which Americans

visited Berlin, as we were to review the mailing lists of Carnegie

scientists to see who in Germany was receiving their reports. Progress

among my researchers was exchanged by continuous use of the Internet and

by the extensive use of faxed and scanned documents. Eventually all of

the documents came together in my office in Washington. They were then

copied and arranged in chronological folders—one folder for every

month of the twentieth century. The materials were then cross-filed to

trace certain trends, and then juxtaposed against articles published

month-by-month in journals such as Eugenical News, Journal of Heredity

and Eugenics Review, as well as numerous race science publications in

Nazi Germany. By pulling any one monthly folder I could assemble a

snapshot of what was occurring worldwide during that month. When we were

done,

we had assembled a mountain of documentation that clearly chronicled a

century of eugenic crusading by America's finest universities, most

reputable scientists, most trusted professional and charitable

organizations, and most revered corporate foundations. They had

collaborated with the Department of Agriculture and numerous state

agencies in an attempt to breed a new race of Nordic humans, applying

the same principles used to breed cattle and corn. The names define

power and prestige in America: the Carnegie Institution, the Rockefeller

Foundation, the Harriman railroad fortune, Harvard University, Princeton

University, Yale University, Stanford University, the American Medical

Association, Margaret Sanger, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Robert Yerkes,

Woodrow Wilson, the American Museum of Natural History, the American

Genetic Association and a sweeping array of government agencies from the

obscure Virginia Bureau of Vital Statistics to the U.S. State

Department. Next

came an obsessive documentation process. Every fact and fragment and its

context was supported with black and white documents, then

double-checked and separately triple-checked in a rigorous multistage

verification regimen by a team of argumentative, hairsplitting

fact-checkers. Only then was the manuscript draft submitted to a panel

of known experts in the field from the United States, Germany, England

and Poland, for a line-by-line review. The result: behind each of the

hundreds of footnotes, there is a folder that contains the supporting

documentation. To ensure that all of our information was accurate, we

also set about verifying the work of numerous other scholars by checking

their documentation. We often asked them to provide documents from their

files. In other words, we not only documented my book, we verified other

works as well. Most of the authors graciously complied, readily faxing

copies of their documents or explaining precisely where the information

could be found. During this process, however, we discovered numerous

errors in many prior works. For example, in one book an important speech

on the value of heredity is attributed to Woodrow Wilson, president of

the United States—the speech was actually given by Jim Wilson,

president of the American Breeders Association. I can understand how

errors like this occur. Many scholars rely on other scholars' works.

Summaries of summaries of summaries yield a lesser truth with every

iteration. Except for the work of a few brilliant world-class

documenters, such as Daniel J. Kevles, Benno Müller-Hill, Paul

Weindling and Martin Pernick, I largely considered published works as

little more than leads. What's more, there is boundless information

on eugenics accumulating on the Internet, some of it very prettily

presented, much of it hysterical, and unfortunately, most of it filled

with profound errors. Hence whenever possible, I acquired primary source

material so I could

determine the provable facts for myself. When the research phase was

over, I realized that less than half the information I had assembled

would even make it into the book. Frankly, I had amassed enough

information to write a freestanding book for each of the twenty-one

chapters in this volume. It was painful to pick and choose which

information would be included, but I am confident that with so many

journalists throughout America now aggressively delving into eugenics,

the field will soon be as broad and diversified as the investigations of

the Holocaust and American slavery. At least one book could be written

for each state, starting with California, which was America's most

energetic eugenic state. Critical biographies are needed for the key

players. In-depth examinations of the links between Germany and the

Pioneer Fund, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Carnegie Institution as

well as numerous state officials would be welcome. The role of the

Chicago Municipal

Court must be further explored. When I began this project in 2001, many

in the public were not even aware of eugenics. Indeed, for a while my

publisher did not even want me to include the word eugenics in the title

of this book. In reality, however, the topic has been continuously

explored over the past decades by several extremely talented academics

and students hailing from a range of disciplines from biology to

education. Although most were gracious and supportive, I was surprised

to find that many tended to guard their information closely. One such

author told me she didn't believe another book on eugenics was

necessary. ( " It depends on how nuanced, " she said with some

discomfort.) Another professor astonished me by asking for money to

answer some questions within his expertise—the first time I had

encountered such a request in thirty-five years of historical research.

When I contacted a Virginia professor who had written a dissertation

decades earlier, she

actually told me she didn't think a member of the media was

" qualified " to read her dissertation. One collaborative

scholarly eugenic website, ironically funded by a federal grant,

restricts media usage while permitting unrestricted scholarly usage. As

I was completing my work, the public was beginning to discover the

outlines of eugenics. The Richmond Times-Dispatch, Winston-Salem

Journal, and several other publications and radio stations, as well as

the Los Angeles Times, New York Times and American Heritage magazine,

all produced exemplary articles on various aspects of eugenics. The

Winston-Salem Journal series was a feat of investigative journalism. As

the manuscript was being typed, the governors of Virginia, Oregon,

California, North Carolina and South Carolina all publicly apologized to

the victims of their states' official persecution. Others will

follow. The topic is now where it belongs, in the hands of hard-driving

journalists and historians who will not

stop until they have uncovered all the facts. Now that newspaper and

magazine articles have placed the crime of eugenics on the front burner,

my book explains in depth exactly how this fraudulent science infected

our society and then reached across the world and right into Nazi

Germany. I want the full story to be understood in context. Skipping

around in the book will only lead to flawed and erroneous conclusions.

So if you intend to skim, or to rely on selected sections, please do not

read the book at all. This is the saga of a century and can easily be

misunderstood. The realities of the twenties, thirties and forties were

very different from each other. I have made this request of my readers

on prior books and I repeat it for this volume as well. Although this

book contains many explosive revelations and embarrassing episodes about

some of our society's most honored individuals and institutions, I

hope its contents will not be misused or quoted out of

context by special interests. Opponents of a woman's right to choose

could easily seize upon Margaret Sanger's eugenic rhetoric to

discredit the admirable work of Planned Parenthood today; I oppose such

misuse. Detractors of today's Rockefeller Foundation could easily

apply the facts of their Nazi connections to their current programs; I

reject the linkage. Those frightened by the prospect of human

engineering could invoke the science's eugenic foundations to

condemn all genomic research; that would be a mistake. While I am as

anxious as the next person about the prospect of out-of-control genomics

under the thumb of big business, I hope every genetic advance that helps

humanity fight disease will continue as fast and as furiously as

possible. This is the right place to note that virtually all the

organizations I investigated cooperated with unprecedented rigor,

because they want the history illuminated as much as anyone. This

includes the Rockefeller Foundation,

the Carnegie Institution, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and the Max

Planck Institute, successor to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. All gave me

unlimited access and unstinting assistance. These organizations have all

worked hard to help the world discover their pasts and must be

commended. Planned Parenthood worked with me closely day after day,

searching for and faxing documents, continually demonstrating their

interest in the unvarnished truth. The same can be said for numerous

other corporations and organizations. This is a book of history, and

corporate and philanthropic America must be commended when they

cooperate in an investigation as aggressive and demanding as mine.

Indeed, of the scores of societies, corporations, organizations and

governmental agencies I contacted around the world, only one obstructed

my work: IBM refused me access to its files. Despite this obstruction, I

was able to demonstrate that the race-defining punch card used by the SS

in Nazi

Germany was actually derived from one developed for the Carnegie

Institution years before Hitler came to power. This project has been a

long, exhausting, exhilarating odyssey for me, one that has taken me to

the darkest side of the brightest minds and revealed to me one reason

why America has been struggling so long to become the country it still

wants to be. We have a distance to go. Again, I ask how did this happen

in a progressive society? After reviewing thousands upon thousands of

pages of documentation, and pondering the question day and night for

nearly two years, I realize it comes down to just one word. It was more

than the self-validation and self-certification of the elite, more than

just power and influence joining forces with prejudice. It was the

corrupter of us all: it was arrogance. Edwin Black

Washington D.C

March 15, 2003

 

 

 

 

 

" in secret we will kill them " -Plato , kabbalist