The Eugenics Movement

Question

The eugenics movement
A) formed the basis for notions of racial equality in Nazi Germany
B) was popular throughout the 1970s.
C) is a now discredited view of racial purity
D) was begun by Charles Darwin
E) is supported in biological data

Accepted Answer

The eugenics movement advocated for the improvement of the genetic quality of the human population through selective breeding and sterilization of those deemed "unfit." Its ideas were used as a basis for Nazi Germany's policies of racial purity and genocide. Today, the movement is widely discredited and recognized as promoting discriminatory and unethical practices.