Today is Holocaust Memorial Day.
One of the things not taught in our schools, is that eugenics, forced sterilization, and gas chambers were ideas first popularized by American dog breeders like Leon F. Whitney, who influenced (and corresponded with) Hitler.
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In 1935 Alexis Carrel, the French scientist who won the 1912 Nobel Prize for medicine, published a best-selling book entitled “L'Homme, Cet Inconnu” (Man, The Unknown) which took Leon F Whitney's ideas further, advocating a forced eugenics system to be controlled by the state.
Carrel even suggested mass killing, using gas, writing: “A euthanasia establishment, equipped with a suitable gas, would allow the humanitarian and economic disposal of the [unwanted and undesirable]… Perhaps it would be effective to kill off the worst and keep the best, as we do in the breeding of dogs."
Gas chambers, of course, were first developed to kill dogs. This rolling gas chamber (see above) was put into operation by the "Animal Protective Association" of Washington, D.C., and was featured in the November 1937 issue of Popular Science magazine.
Dog breeders also got into the act. The German Shepherd was created in 1899 by Max Von Stephanitz, a rabid antisemite who saw his new breed as a possible tool of the state; a biddable neo-wolf to be used by the police and military to “feast on the entrails of slaughtered enemies".
Today, the modern Kennel Clubs salute eugenics, praise blood purity, cheer sterilization of mixed- and cross-breeds, and judge dogs on coat color… even as scientific farmers embrace hybrids for better health and improved production.
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