Edwin Black - War Against the Weak

MOST CHILLING. War Against the Weak is filled with tale after tale of arrogance, ignorance, and cruelty—accounts that Black wisely allows the eugenicists to relate in their own words… Perhaps most chilling, though, were the ways in which American eugenicists influenced their German counterparts.

HAIR-RAISER AND EYE-OPENER.A hair-raiser and an eye-opener … contains details so vivid and horrid that one can hardly believe them or bear to read them… This is an important book, filled with little-known facts about how some of our most esteemed institutions and professionals funded and practiced very bad science, if it was science at all, and how this pseudoscience permeated much of the world’s thinking and led to the atrocities of a world war.

SENSATIONAL.At the beginning of the last century, American scientists, politicians, and livestock breeders decided to “create a superior Nordic race.” Sixty thousand men and women, most of them poor or of color, underwent compulsory sterilization—an idea that stimulated the Nazi’s eugenics program. The full extent of this medical crime has been described by Black in this sensational book.

FIERCE. A PRODIGIOUS FEAT OF REPORTING. War Against the Weak offers a fierce, compelling, account of how American ideas helped inspire—if that’s the right word—Hitler’s Reich… War Against the Weak is well told and extraordinarily sad. It represents a prodigious feat of reporting, as Black has trolled every archive and read every letter. A very persuasive book.

SHOCKING AND GRIPPING.An impressive job and the resulting story is at once shocking and gripping.

IMPRESSIVE.Impressive, probably the history of eugenics for the foreseeable future.

WELL-DOCUMENTED. COMPREHENSIVE.An important, well-documented, comprehensive story, not known to most Americans, about a perversion of the pursuit of knowledge in the interest of race and social superiority.

CHILLING AND THOROUGHLY RESEARCHED.Chilling and thoroughly researched… it is a book whose message must be made known… for those who say “It can’t happen here.”

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The Farhud

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War Against the Weak

Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race

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2003, 2012

Nazi Nexus

America’s Corporate Connections To Hitler’s Holocaust

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2009

IBM and the Holocaust

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2008

The Transfer Agreement

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Internal Combustion

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Format C:

A Novel

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1999

Copyright © 2003, 2012 Edwin Black

Second paperback edition 2012

Printed and published in the United States

Dialog Press, Washington, DC

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The Library of Congress cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:

Black, Edwin

War against the weak : eugenics and America’s campaign to create a master race / by Edwin Black.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN: 1-56858-258-7 (hardcover)

1. Eugenics—United States—History 2. Sterilization (Birth Control)—United States. 3. Human reproduction—government policy—United States. 4. United States—Social policy. 5. United States—Moral conditions. I. Title.

HQ755.5.U5B53 2003

363.9’7—dc21

2003048857

ISBN 978-0-914153-29-0 (paperback)

ISBN 978-0-914153-30-6 (ebook)

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