Adolph Hitler

Eugenics poster at the exhibition Wonders of Life in Berlin in 1935 showing demographic projections under the assumption of higher fertility of the "inferior" (Minderwertige) relative to the "superior" (Höherwertige).

Adolph Hitler was a socialist eugenicist.

Marie Stopes Connection

Excerpt from Lifesite News:

"Marie Stopes, the notorious early 20th century contraception campaigner, eugenicist and anti-Semite, did for Britain what Margaret Sanger did for the US: preached the doctrines of eugenics and promoted contraception and sterilisation to achieve “racial hygiene.” So successful was she at altering British society in favour of her eugenics doctrines, the British government has chosen her to be included in a “Women of Distinction” line of stamps.

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Born in 1880, Stopes was a paleobotanist by education, but it is her legacy as a promoter of eugenics, Nazi racial theories, mandatory sterilisation for poor people and artificial contraception – what the Royal Mail calls “family planning” – for which she is best remembered. Marie Stopes International is a major engine of the world’s abortion and population control movement, with nearly 500 centres in 38 countries.

In 1921, Stopes opened Britain’s first “family planning” clinic, offering artificial contraception to married women of the lower classes in an attempt to control the population of the poor, whom she considered to be polluting the race. Reflecting the racist message of the eugenics philosophy, her birth-control organisation was called the Society for Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress. Her 1921 slogan, echoed by the modern abortion movement, was, “Joyful and Deliberate Motherhood, A Safe Light in our Racial Darkness.”

In 1930, other such organisations joined to form the National Birth Control Council, later the Family Planning Association, which remains one of the most powerful voices of the abortion lobby to this day.

"...in August 1939, just a month before Britain went to war with Nazi Germany, she sent a collection of [poetry] to Adolph Hitler, accompanied by a note reading, “Dear Herr Hitler, Love is the greatest thing in the world: so will you accept from me these (poems) that you may allow the young people of your nation to have them?” In 1935 Stopes attended the International Congress for Population Science in Berlin, sponsored by the Nazi regime.

In her 1920 book “Radiant Motherhood” Stopes called for the “sterilisation of those totally unfit for parenthood (to) be made an immediate possibility, indeed made compulsory.” She also heavily criticised the abolition of child labour for the lower classes.

Following Stopes’ death in 1958, a large part of her personal fortune went to the Eugenics Society, the organisation that lives today as the Galton Institute. The Galton Institute continues to promote eugenics through artificial reproduction techniques such as in vitro fertilisation, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis and direct manipulation of human beings, and their genome, at the embryonic stage.

The Enduring Influence of Thomas Malthus

Verbatim from November 14, 2019 article by Renee Nal:

You may not have heard of the 1798 treatise An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Robert Malthus, but its influence has been profound and endures to this day. Malthusians eagerly lap up Mathus’ dreary predictions that the earth’s resources will be stretched to the limit unless major intervention into the population takes place.

Malthusianism is deeply related to eugenics, but has managed to escape the same stigma eugenics suffered in the wake of Nazi Germany. As observed in an article at the Library of Economics and Liberty: “The Malthusianism told them that millions had to die; the eugenics told them who the victims ought to be.” The eugenics movement was embraced by 20th century socialists like Marie Stopes, John Maynard Keynes, George Bernard Shaw, Margaret Sanger and H.G. Wells – and was made infamous by Adolph Hitler.

Eugenics and Malthusianism, were also deeply linked to a phrase devised by Margaret Sanger: “Birth Control.”

A revealing bit of history is explained in the October 1961 issue of “The Eugenics Review“:

The term ‘birth control,’ coined by Mrs. Sanger, soon became popular in England as expressing better the aims of the movement than the older more clumsy term ‘neo-malthusianism.’ In time ‘birth control’ itself became outmoded and we now have ‘planned parenthood’ or ‘family planning.’

Neo-Malthusianism competed with “eugenics” in its connection to “birth control.” “Eugenics” and “birth control”, according to the Women’s History Review, were “so intertwined as to be synonymous.”

As previously mentioned, Malthusianism may have been the close brother of eugenics, but Malthus’ discredited theory on population still endures. The influence of Malthus’ ideas on Adolph Hitler was clear.

An illustration from Margaret Sanger’s “Birth Control Review” from 1918

Consider Hitler’s own words:,

“The day will certainly come when the whole of mankind will be forced to check the augmentation of the human species, because there will be no further possibility of adjusting the productivity of the soil to the perpetual increase in the population.”

Compare Hitler’s quote to Thomas Malthus:

“The power of population is so superior to the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race. ”

In the case of the pre-Nazi eugenicists, the solution to this problem of population was forced sterilization of “undesirables” and “birth control”. After Hitler effectively discredited the eugenics movement, it morphed into other areas, such as abortion, euthanasia, and global warming alarmism. But it never went away.

Just as the communists did not evaporate when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, Eugenicists did not evaporate in the wake of Nazi, Germany.