Hitler actually went further. He had the mentally ill steralized by the thousands.
It sure is Hitleresque tho
Hitler actually went further. He had the mentally ill steralized by the thousands.
It sure is Hitleresque tho
For one thing, it's also happened here with the eugenics movement of the early 20th century. For another thing, as late as 1968, adoption agencies were removing newborns from single white mothers by claiming they were mentally ill, simply because they refused to sign termination of parental rights that would free their babies for adoption. The women were involuntarily committed, and then their parental rights were terminated by the courts. Some of women were given shock treatments, although there was nothing wrong with them, besides the fact they refused to part with their own babies. Some were threatened with involuntary sterilization, an atrocity regularly committed against female inpatients in mental hospitals until well into the 1970s. In each case, the newborns were adopted out to strangers aganst the mother's will, and in at least one of these cases that i am aware of, the male adoptor was a homosexual.
Many of these women suffered the fallout from this emotional torture for decades. Adoption agencies and social workers have yet to acknowledge, much less apologize, for this torture of American women on American soil in the 1960s.
It's happened here before, and it can happen here again, folks.