We contributed mightily to programs in Nazi Germany even before what is now called the Holocaust reached its peak. We basically built it thanks to warped notions of Social Darwinism promoted by post-war angry racists, that Darwin himself would have vomited uncontrollably had he known what people were doing with his studies. Darwin was descended from a long line of abolitionists and even expressed respect for some of the African workers aboard the Beagle.
The Reich really started in America, thanks to major industrialists who shared the same ideology as salivatingly livid Southern racists. American industrial conglomerates like IBM and Ford were major contributors to the "machinery" of the Nazi empire. They thought they were transforming the human race into a well-oiled... machine.
Further reading on this subject:
IBM and the Holocaust, by Edwin Black
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ibm-and-the-holocaust-edwin-black/1111222985?ean=2940016124421
IBM and the Holocaust is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling shocker--a million copies in print--detailing IBM's conscious co-planning and co-organizing of the Holocaust for the Nazis, all micromanaged by its president Thomas J Watson from New York and Paris. This Expanded Edition offers 37 pages of previous unpublished documents, pictures, internal company correspondence, and other archival materials to produce an even more explosive volume. Originally published to extraordinary praise in 2001, this provocative, award-winning international bestseller has stood the test of time as it chronicles the story of IBM's strategic alliance with Nazi Germany. IBM and the Holocaust provides nothing less than a chilling investigation into corporate complicity. Edwin Black's monumental research exposes how IBM and its subsidiaries helped create enabling technologies for the Nazis, step-by-step, from the identification and cataloging programs of the 1930s to the selections of the 1940s.
Seeds of Destruction, by F. William Engdahl (particularly the chapters on the history of genetic manipulation)
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/seeds-of-destruction-f-william-engdahl/1118018884?ean=9780973714722
This skillfully researched book focuses on the effort of a tiny socio-political American elite to gain control over the very basis of human survival: our daily bread. "Control the food and you control the people." It's no ordinary book about the perils of GMO. Engdahl takes the reader into the corridors of power, into the back rooms of labs, behind closed doors of corporate boardrooms. He cogently reveals a diabolical world of profit-driven political intrigue, government corruption and coercion, where genetic manipulation and the patenting of life forms are used to gain control over food production worldwide. If it often reads as a crime story, that should be no surprise: that is what it is. Engdahl's carefully argued critique goes far beyond the familiar controversies surrounding the practice of genetic modification as a scientific technique. An eye-opener and must-read for all those committed to social justice and World peace.
The Nazi Connection, by Stefan Kuhl
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/nazi-connection-stefan-kuhl/1101391501?ean=9780195149784
The shocking story of the ties between the Nazi "racial hygiene" program and American eugenicists. Kuhl carefully recounts the history of the eugenics movement, both in the U.S. and abroad, demonstrating how widely the idea of sterilization as a genetic control had become accepted by the early 20th century.
We're not the shining beacon of freedom and welcoming benevolence we like to tell everyone we are.
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