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prize-winning Dr. Alexis Carrel, also from the Rockefeller

Institute, happily applauded the slaughter carried out in
Germany, and had no reservations over the mentally ill and con-
victed prisoners being subjected to mass killings. 114
The perversion of eugenics led to a great many American
states passing compulsory sterilization laws. In the USA, a total
of 100,000 people were sterilized mostly against their will. As
just one example of the dimensions that eugenist barbarity

assumed, in the early 20th century, 8,000 "unsuitable" people
were sterilized in Virginia. This inhuman practice was legal in
many states until as late as 1974. 115
One of the foremost Americans in eugenics was Charles B.
Davenport, known for his articles that sought to combine genet-

ic laws with Darwinism. Yet the claims put forward in his arti-

A graph showing the numbers of sterilizations for euge-
nics purposes in the USA between 1907 and 1935

January 1935
Number of Operations January 1928 January 1933
January 1934

December 1931

July 1925

January 1921
3.233 6.244 8.315 15.356 16.688 19.285 21.339
March 1907

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