Murderous Science : Elimination by Scientific Selection of Jews, Gypsies, and Others in Germany, 1933-1945

In the 1920s and 1930s, advocates for eugenics claimed that genes influenced human behaviour, but with no valid evidence. In Germany the Nazis adopted their ideas to justify violent anti-semitism. In this expanded edition of the English translation of "Todliche Wissenschaft", the German geneticist Benno Muller-Hill documents the long-suppressed collusion of eugenics and racist politics which resulted in the mass murder of millions. In a new afterword, he warns against the misuse of emerging knowledge about human heredity today. In an accompanying essay, Nobel Laureate James D. Watson describes a visit to Berlin and his impressions of the legacy of eugenics in German science.