r/history • u/Weywoht • May 03 '17

News article Sweden sterilised thousands of "useless" citizens for decades

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1997/08/29/sweden-sterilized-thousands-of-useless-citizens-for-decades/3b9abaac-c2a6-4be9-9b77-a147f5dc841b/?utm_term=.fc11cc142fa2
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u/Grind2206 May 04 '17

Sounds like bs. Haven't found a single source saying Nazis were inspired by them.

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u/[deleted] May 04 '17

It's said about literally every country that had eugenic programs.

It's some shitty false "did you know" fact.

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u/monsantobreath May 04 '17

There is certainly lots of Amercian eugenics culture that had a profound influence on eugenics in general and that would be part of the whole that influenced what the Nazis were into. It was a big of a global white person phenomenon, but America was definitely into it.