I've known about this for years, too.  As far as the eugenics movement goes, our local newspaper did an extensive series on the involuntary sterialisation program here in NC, which went on from the 1920s through the 1970s.  Not only disabled people were sterialised but also able-bodied teenagers in juevenile homes and detention halls.  It is a stain on the state's history, but very few people other than those affected knew about it.

The Nazis' involvement has been known for a long time.

Kat



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From: Michael Collis <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Oct 3, 2003 11:03 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Fwd: nazis  (artiucle)

This is old news to me, Mag.  I've known about  this since  1994.   The
Discovery  Channel  did an ezpose of it in one program it had exposing
hate groups.  The extermination program of the Nazi's was called T4,.and
do you know where the Nazi's got much of their idealogy from?  They got
it from the Eugenics being taught as science by professors and practiced
by doctors. in the U.S.A. in the 1920's and 30 's.  A Suprme Court
ruling said that states could sterilise people who were found to be
inferior. and that ruling has not been overturned.    As a natter of
fact, at the Nuremberg Trials, a few.of the Nazi tried that as their
defense.  . So, even though we may think our collective hands are
bloodless, they're not.  I can never again be a "cheerleader" of the USA
because I know too much of thr dark side of our history.

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>this is the article I referred to a while back.
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>Mag
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>Report: Nazis Used Hospitals for Killings
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>By TONY CZUCZKA
>.c The Associated Press
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>BERLIN (AP) - Nazi Germany used hundreds of hospitals and clinics to kill at
>least 200,000 handicapped, mentally ill and other institutional patients who
>were deemed physically inferior, researchers said Tuesday.
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