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Hitler got his ideas about the Jews - and their extermination, including the use of gas chambers - from the Progressive Eugenics Movement in the United States: "Eugenics would have been so much bizarre parlor talk had it not been for extensive financing by corporate philanthropies, specifically the Carnegie Institution, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Harriman railroad fortune. They were all in league with some of America’s most respected scientists from such prestigious universities as Stanford, Yale, Harvard and Princeton. These academicians espoused race theory and race science, and then faked and twisted data to serve eugenics’ racist aims.

Stanford President David Starr Jordan originated the notion of “race and blood” in his 1902 racial epistle “Blood of a Nation,” in which the university scholar declared that human qualities and conditions such as talent and poverty were passed through the blood.

In 1904, the Carnegie Institution established a laboratory complex at Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island that stockpiled millions of index cards on ordinary Americans, as researchers carefully plotted the removal of families, bloodlines and whole peoples. From Cold Spring Harbor, eugenics advocates agitated in the legislatures of America, as well as the nation’s social service agencies and associations.

The Harriman railroad fortune paid local charities, such as the New York Bureau of Industries and Immigration, to seek out Jewish, Italian and other immigrants in New York and other crowded cities and subject them to deportation, confinement or forced sterilization.

The Rockefeller Foundation helped found the German eugenics program and even funded the program that Josef Mengele worked in before he went to Auschwitz.

Much of the spiritual guidance and political agitation for the American eugenics movement came from California’s quasi-autonomous eugenic societies, such as Pasadena’s Human Betterment Foundation and the California branch of the American Eugenics Society, which coordinated much of their activity with the Eugenics Research Society in Long Island. These organizations — which functioned as part of a closely-knit network — published racist eugenic newsletters and pseudoscientific journals, such as Eugenical News and Eugenics, and propagandized for the Nazis." https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/eugenics-and-the-nazis-the-california-connection/

So the US isn't exactly innocent in this, rather the reverse, it provided the basis for genocide by means of forced medical procedures - including sterilization and euthanasia... And perhaps this history is repeating itself on a worldwide scale, again spearheaded by eugenicists in the US.

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Margery Sanger also believed that the “Negro” race was inferior to Northern Europeans and so had to be sterilized. This was the more “humane” option compared to Germany’s final solution.

The Gates Foundation has continued Sanger’s work on population (meaning nonwhite) control with a worldwide tetanus vaccine that sterilizes women.

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