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<CENTER>Resources: Eugenics and the Nazis</CENTER></H1>
<CENTER>Impartial information about eugenics is difficult to find on the
Internet. A simple search for the word will produce a preponderance of
politically and racially extremist sites, with a smattering of news articles
that barely mention the term and heavily biased school reports. After exhaustive
search, though, I have found a few sites that seem to approach eugenics from a
highly objective standpoint. The Holocaust is, thankfully, usually treated from
a much more mature standpoint, but I have found a few sites with a particular
wealth of information on this difficult topic. I recommend the following sites
for anyone doing research in either of these areas:
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<H3><A href="http://www.geneletter.org/">The Gene Letter</A></H3>
<P>This electronic newsletter focuses on ethical, legal, and social issues
related to advances in genetic science. It is sponsored by the Human Genome
Project and the US Department of Energy. It seems to me to be educational,
impartial, and fascinating. I highly recommend this site for anyone interested
in the social implications of genetics. The February 1999 issue focuses on
eugenics; at the time I write this it can be found on the front page, but may be
found in the "Back Issues" section in the future.</P>
<P><A href="http://www.geneletter.org/">http://www.geneletter.org/</A></P>
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<H3><A href="http://www.faseb.org/genetics/ashg/policy/pol-30.htm">Statement on
Eugenics</A></H3>
<H4><A href="http://www.faseb.org/genetics/ashg/ashgmenu.htm">The American
Society on Human Genetics</A></H4>
<P>The American Society on Human Eugenics is a professional membership
organization of human geneticists in North America. It seeks to bring together
workers in the various aspects of the field and provide a forum for sharing
research findings. Their site links to a bounty of technical information about
genetic research. Their official policy statement on eugenics reflects the
contemporary viewpoint of the mainstream scientific community. It provides a
brief but comprehensive historical summary of eugenics, as well as outlining the
few eugenics-type programs which still exist in the world today.</P>
<P><A
href="http://www.faseb.org/genetics/ashg/policy/pol-30.htm">http://www.faseb.org/genetics/ashg/policy/pol-30.htm</A></P>
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<H3><A
href="http://www.med.upenn.edu/bioethics/index.shtml">Bioethics.net</A></H3>
<P>This site is run by the University of Pennsylvania Health System. Its
expressed purpose if to advance public awareness and discussion of social and
ethical issues related to health care. Several articles on the site discuss the
relation of eugenics to current issues from a variety of different viewpoints.
However, many of the articles seem somewhat biased, and not all sides of some
issues are presented.</P>
<P><A
href="http://www.med.upenn.edu/bioethics/index.shtml">http://www.med.upenn.edu/bioethics/index.shtml</A></P>
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<H3><A href="http://remember.org/">Cybrary of the Holocaust</A></H3>
<P>A truly excellent site related to all aspects of the Holocaust. There are
great amounts of discussion, documents, and primary sources. Images and
information from the concentration camps and every aspect of the Nazi regime can
be easily found. I highly recommend this site to anyone who is at all interested
in the Holocaust. Searching for "eugenics" brings up many enlightening and
disturbing documents about the Nazi policies.</P>
<P><A href="http://remember.org/">http://remember.org/</A></P>
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<H3><A href="http://www.nizkor.org/">The Nizkor Project</A></H3>
<P>This site is dedicated to combating Holocaust "revisionism" and the denial
that these atrocities occurred. Its multiple "Research Guides" cover both the
facts of the Holocaust itself and the painful truth that many have denied its
reality. This site makes, in my opinion, a noble effort to win people over with
truth. I only wonder how effective it might be to those who seem to ignore all
the evidence against them.</P>
<P><A href="http://www.nizkor.org/">http://www.nizkor.org/</A></P>
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<H3><A href="http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook44.html">Internet Modern
History Sourcebook: The Holocaust</A></H3>
<H4><A href="http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/">Internet History Sourcebooks
Project</A></H4>
<P>This is part of the Internet History Sourcebooks Project, a truly excellent
website for historical research. I have found it invaluable for research on
numerous topics. It links to hundreds of different primary sources on almost any
historical topic imaginable. Though it has little information on eugenics, its
coverage of the Holocaust is comprehensive and extremely valuable. It covers the
policies that led up to the holocaust, how it was carried out, and later
reactions.</P>
<P><A
href="http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook44.html">http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook44.html</A></P>
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<FONT size=-1>Jason Finney<BR>May 1999</FONT>
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