Mankind
Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 4 (Summer 2008)
pp. 444-483
Eugenics and the Holocaust: 1927-1939
John Glad
University of Maryland
The author investigates the charge that eugenics represents a
“slippery path” that led to the Holocaust, and concludes that
this widely popularized allegation is not supported by the
facts. In a documented “timeline” he shows that during the
period 1927 through 1939 many of the leading proponents of
the eugenics movement were Jewish, and that the 1930s
movement aimed at the political and genetic exclusion of
Jews from German
