Eugenics and the Welfare State
Swedish social democracy’s relationship to eugenics is a reminder that socialist planning requires a bedrock commitment to human dignity.
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The world’s first state-run eugenics institute wasn’t created in Adolf Hitler’s Germany but in Uppsala, Sweden. Headed by physician Herman Lundborg, who soon became a Nazi sympathizer, the State Institute for Racial Biology was established in 1921. The institute helped to reinforce ideas about Nordic superiority by conducting bizarre racial classification studies. And although Lundborg — and […]
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