Eugenics

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas- Does This Children’s Book Whitewash the Horrors of the Holocaust
AntiSemitism

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: Does This Children’s Book Whitewash the Horrors of the Holocaust?

05/06/2025 Bruce Strom 0

My deeper objection to this book is the thought that the young son of the commandant could be so naïve that he would not realize that making a friend of a Jewish boy would be seen as repugnant. The reality was that anti-Semitism was a core belief of the Nazi state, and this was an important virtue that the Nazi engrained in the lessons taught to impressionable youngsters both in the Nazi Youth clubs and in the public school system. Furthermore, children were taught that the Nazi virtues prohibited them from associating with Jews. […]

Eugenics Under Jim Crow America and Nazi Germany: Sterilization, Euthanasia, Lynchings, and Holocaust
Civil Rights

Eugenics and Scientific Racism in the Jim Crow Deep South and Nazi Germany

11/22/2024 Bruce Strom 1

Was there a similar Final Solution in America? True, there were no gas chambers in the Deep South, nor was there a similar system of systematic mass murder, but there were riots such as the Tulsa Riots where the homes, businesses, and churches of thousands of blacks were torched and looted, and many blacks were injured and murdered. In these riots, mostly occurring in many cities during the interwar years, on rare occasions when there were police arrests, they arrested the black victims who fought back. The major difference is that the Nazis murdered far more people much quicker, and their regime lasted only a decade, as opposed to the seventy-year reign of Jim Crow racism in America. […]