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eugenics

Theories of eugenics or "racial hygiene" were widely accepted throughout the world in the early twentieth century, and they were popular with German scientists and medical professionals when the Nazis rose to power in 1933. Ideas of “racial hygiene” inspired Nazi racial ideology and many of the regime’s policies, including forcible sterilizations and the systematic murder of people with disabilities. 

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