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Homo Sapiens 1900
1998 · Film · documentary · 88 min
Directed by Peter Cohen
Homo Sapiens 1900 is a 1998 documentary directed by Peter Cohen, about various eugenics methods that were in practice in Europe during the first part of the 20th century. Eugenics is to be the scientific credo of the 20th century. The man credited with its invention, Francis Galton, says it is based on the concept that the evolution of man is crippled by the ill-conceived - those unfit to breed. The study of eugenics thus would concern itself with distinguishing the weed from the good flowers.
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> Also Eugenics was going in full swing in US has well.
For anyone who's interested in this part of the Nazi story, of which I am personally fascinated with, I urge you to check out Homo Sapiens 1900[1], a documentary about the Eugenics movement directly prior to World War II. Among other things, it basically chronicles the ideology and people who influenced Hitler, then goes on to show how these people's beliefs were embedded into the doctrine of Nazi Germany. What it does not focus on is the actual Holocaust, this movie is just talking about the philosophies that led to those atrocities. It's somewhat disturbing, but also enlightening, to see how some slightly hate-filled ideologies and pseudo-scientific beliefs can be combined with military might to form an almost unstoppable menace.
[1]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0176825/