Proposed Legislation in Virginia Could Provide Reparations for Victims of US Eugenics Program

In the 21st century the eugenics movement swept across Europe and the US, it was taught in schools, praised in the media and finally pushed through as government policy almost everywhere.

The Nazi party was not the only regime during those times that were guilty of forcing harsh eugenics policies on their people.

All over the United States during World War 2 people who were depressed, handicap, alcoholic or even children who were as young as 7 years old who happened to score too low on standardized IQ tests were singled out and sterilized.

More than 42,000 people were sterilized in America between 1941 and 1943 under the guise of eugenics, so Germany wasn’t the only country at the time that had sick master race schemes. In fact one of the most influential books to Hitler’s ideology was a book called “passing of the great race” by an American named Madison Grant. Hitler called passing of the great race his “bible” and wrote Grant numerous fan letters.

This week it was announced that people in Virginia who were effected by this eugenics program may see some long overdue restitution.

more here: http://theintelhub.com/2013/02/07/proposed-legislation-in-virginia-could-provide-reparations-for-victims-of-us-eugenics-program/