War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race, Expanded Edition (105 page)

Digestive Diseases
Dimensions
Epilepsia
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 

History of Psychiatry

IAA
Bulletin AAI
Institutional Quarterly
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Journal of American History
Journal of American Public Health
Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 

Journal of Delinquency 

Journal of Psycho-Asthenics
Journal of Southern History
Journal of the American Medical Association 

Journal of the Anthropological Institute 

Journal of the History of Sexuality
Journal of the History of Biology
Lancet
McGill Law Journal
Mental Retardation
National Geographic
Nature
Nature Reviews
Neurology
New York Medical Journal
New York University Law Review
Osiris
Psychological Review
The Standard

American Breeders’ Magazine 

Eugenical News
Eugenics
Eugenics Quarterly
Eugenics Review
Journal of Heredity

Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete
der
Sexualforschung
Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv Bevölkerungsfragen
Archiv für Rassen- und Gesellschaftsbiologie
Der Erbarzt
Deutschest Ärtzeblatt

Die Neue Zeitung
Fortschritte der Erbpathologie, Rassenhygiene und ihrer Grenzgebiete 

Hollerith Nachrichten
Neues Volk
Rassenpolitische Auslands-Korrespondenz
Schleswig-Hoisteinische Hochschullbl
ät
ter
Sexual-Probleme, Zeitschrift für Sexualwissenschaft und Sexualpolik 

Völkischer Beobachter
Volk und Rasse
Zeitschrift for Morphologie und Anthropologie Festschrift 

Zeitschrift für Rassenkunde
Zeitschrift für Sexualwissenschaft
Ziel und Weg

Associated Press
Atlantic Monthly
The Australian
British Broadcasting Corporation
Cable News Network
Chicago Tribune
Christian Science Monitor
Economic Quarterly
Free World
The Guardian
The Independent
London Times
Los Angeles Times
Mind
New Republic
New York Times
The Pedagogical Seminary
The Poor-Law Officers’ Journal 

Reuters 

Richmond Times-Dispatch
Risk Management Magazine
San Francisco Daily News
Scientist
Time Magazine
U.S. News
&
World Report 

Washington Post
Winston-Salem Journal

Numerous university dissertations, theses and other unpublished manuscripts and monographs were consulted. Some of the salient ones are listed below.

American Academy of Actuaries. “Genetic Information and Medical Expense Insurance.” June 2000. 

Curtis, Patrick Almond. “Eugenic Reformers, Cultural Perceptions of Dependent Populations, and the Care of the Feebleminded in Illinois: 1909-1920.” Ph. D. diss., University of Illinois at Chicago, 1983.

Hassencahl, Francis Janet. “Harry H. Laughlin, ‘Expert Eugenics Agent’ for the House Committee on
Immigration and Naturalization.” Ph. D. diss., Case Western Reserve University, 1970.

Lombardo, Paul A. “Eugenic Sterilization in Virginia: Aubrey Strode and the Case of Buck v. Bell.” Ph.D. diss, University of Virginia, 1982.

Mehler, Barry. “A History of the American Eugenics Society, 1921-1940.” Ph. D. diss., University of lliinois, 1988.

Mottier, Veronique. “Narratives of National Identity: Sexuality, Race, and the Swiss ‘Dream of Order.’” Paper presented at the European Consortium for Political Research Annual Joint Sessions, Workshop: The Political Uses of Narrative, at Mannheim, 26-31 March 1999.

Smith, Gregory H. “Securing our Personal Genome.” Forthcoming Master’s thesis, Indiana University, 2003.

Film documentaries, including independently produced videos, provide an excellent source of eyewimess testimony and visual insight. Some of the salient videos utilized are listed below.

Baron, Saskia and Paul Sen, director and Dunja Noack, producer. Science and the Swastika. Videocassette. The History Channel, 2001.

Bryant, Sharon, producer. Reclaiming our Heritage. Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 1997, Videocassette.

Trombley, Stephen, director and Brucie Eadier, producer. The Lynchburg Story. Videocassette. Worldview Pictures, 1993.

Blumenstein, Rob, producer-director. History’s Mysteries: Hitler’s Perfect Children. The History Channel, 2000.

I consulted numerous scholarly articles of great value. Some of the salient articles are listed below.

“Cecile and Oskar Vogt: On the Occasion of her 75th and his 80th Birthday.”
Neurology
Vol. 1 No. 3 (May-June 1951)

Elks, Martin A. “The ‘Lethal Chamber’: Further Evidence for the Euthanasia Option.”
Mental Retardation,
Vol. 31 No. 4 (August               1993).

Kevles, Daniel J. “Testing the Army’s Intelligence: Psychologists and the Military in World War I.”
The Journal of American History,                   
Vol. 55, Issue 3 (Dec., 1968). 

Lakin, K. Charlie. “Demographic Studies of Residential Facilities for the Mentally Retarded.”
Developmental Disabilities Project on     Residential Services and Community Adjustment Project Report No. 3.
University of Minnesota Department of Psychoeducational    Studies, circa 1979.

Lemkin, Raphaël. “Genocide
—
 A Modern Crime.”
Free World
Vol. 4 (April 1945).

Lemmens, Trudo. “Selective Justice, Genetic Discrimination, and Insurance: Should We Single Out Genes in Our Laws?”
McGill
Law     
Journal
45 347 (2000).

Lombardo, Paul A. “Medicine, Eugenics, and the Supreme Court: From Coercive Sterilization to Reproductive Freedom.”
The                 Journal of Contemporary Health
Law
and Policy
Volume 13 (1996).

Lombardo, Paul A. “Three Generations, No Imbeciles: New Light on
Buck v. Bell.” New York University
Law
Review,
Vol. 60 no. I.

MacDowell, E. Carlton. “Charles Benedict Davenport, 1866-1944: A Study of Conflicting Influences.”
BIOS
vol. XVII no. 1.

MacNicol, John. “The Voluntary Sterilization Campaign in Britain, 1918-39.”
The Journal of the History of
Sexuality,
Vol. 2 No. 3               (1992).

Müller-HiII, Benno. “The Blood from Auschwitz and the Silence of the Scholars.”
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Vol. 21       (1999).

Neugebauer, Wolfgang and Georg Stacher. “Nazi Child ‘Euthanasia’ in Vienna and the Scientific Exploitation of Its Victims before           and after 1945.”
Digestive Diseases
17 (1999).

Peiffer,Jürgen. “Neuropathology in the Third Reich: Memorial to those Victims of National-Socialist Atrocities in Germany who were       Used by Medical Science.”
Brain Pathology
1 (1991).

Reilly, Philip. “The Virginia Racial Integrity Act Revisited: The Plecker-Laughlin Correspondence: 1928-
1930.”
American Journal of       Medical Genetics
Vol. 16 (1983).

Sherman, Richard B. “‘The Last Stand’: The Fight for Racial Integrity in Virginia in the 1920’s.”
The
Journal of Southern History,
Vol.     54 Issue 1 (February 1988).

Shevell, Michael. “Racial Hygiene, Active Euthanasia, and Julius Hallervorden.”
Neurology
42 (November 1992) and “Reply from the       Author.”
Neurology
43 (July 1993).

Seidelman, William E. “Medicine and Murder in the Third Reich.”
Dimensions: A Journal of Holocaust Studies
Vol.13
No. 1 (1999).

Weber, Matthias M. “Psychiatric Research and Science Policy in Germany: The History of the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt                       für Psychiatrie (German Institute for Psychiatric Research) in Munich from 1917 to 1945.”
History of Psychiatry
xi
(2000).

Literally hundreds of books were cousulted, from period eugenic literature to scholarly works on a range of topics. It would be impossible to list them all. However, a few hundred of the salient volumes are listed below. Listing books here by no means suggests they are reliable; many of these books were consulted because of their period insights rather than their accuracy. This list, then, includes both the most credible and the least credible.

Adams, Mark B.
The Wellborn Science.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Aly, Gatz, Peter Chroust, and Christian Pross.
Cleansing the Fatherland: Nazi Medicine and Racial Hygiene.
Trans. Belinda Cooper. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.

Anderson, Margo J.
The American Census.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988.

Astor, Gerald.
The “Lost” Nazi: The Life
and
Times of
Dr.
Joseph Mengele.
New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., 1985.

Baker, Liva.
The Justice From Beacon Hill: The Life and Times of Oliver Wendell Holmes.
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1991.

Bannister, Robert C.
Social Darwinism: Science and Myth in Anglo-American Social Thought.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1979.

Barr, Martin W.
Mental Defectives: Their History, Treatment and Training.
Philadelphia: P. Blakiston’s Son & Co., 1904; New York: Arno Press, 1973.

Baur, Erwin, Eugen Fischer and Fritz Lenz.
Human Heredity.
3rd Ed. Trans. Eden & Cedar Paul. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1931.

Baur, Erwin, Eugen Fischer, and Fritz Lenz.
Grundriss der menschlichen Erblichkeitslehre und Rassenhygiene.
Munich: J. F. Lehmanns Verlag, 1921.

Baur, Erwin, Eugen Fischer, and Fritz Lenz.
Grundriss der menschlichen Erblichkeitslehre und Rassenhygiene,
2nd ed. Munich: J. F. Lehmanns Verlag, 1923.

Benson, Keith R., Jane Maienschein, and Ronald Rainger, editors.
Expansion of American Biology.
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1991.

Biesold, Horst.
Crying Hands: Eugenics and Deaf People in Nazi Germany.
Trans. William Sayers. Washington DC: Gallaudet University Press, 1988.

Black, Edwin.
IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America’s Most
Powerful Corporation.
New York: Crown Publishers, 2001.

Black, Edwin.
The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish
Palestine.
Washington: Dialog Press, 1999; New York: Carol & Graf, 2001.

Blacker, C. P. “Eugenics In Prospect and Retrospect,” In
The Galton Lecture,
1945
. Hamish Hamilton Medical Books, n.d.

Blacker, C. P.
Eugenics: Galton and After.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 1952; Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, Inc., 1987.

Bock, Gisela,
Zwangssterilisation im Nationalsozialismus: Studien zur Rassenpolitik und Frauenpolitik.
Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1986.

Bohstedt, John.
Riots and Community Politics in England and Wales 1790-1810.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker.
Yankee From Olympus: Justice Holmes and His Family.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1945.

Breiting, Richard.
Secret Conversations with Hitler.
Edit. Edouard Calic. Trans. Richard Barry. New York: The John Day Company, 1968.

Brigham, Carl C.
A Study of American Intelligence.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1923.

Brown, Stuart E. Jr., Lorraine F. Myers and Eileen M. Chappel.
Pocahontas’ Descendants.
Baltimore, MD: The Pocahontas Foundation, 1985.

Browning, Christopher R.
The Path to Genocide: Essays on Launching the Final Solution.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Bruehl, Charles P.
Birth Control and Eugenics: In the Light of Fundamental Ethical Principles.
New York: Joseph P. Wagner, Inc., 1928.

Burleigh, Michael.
Death and Deliverance: ‘Euthanasia’ in Germany 1900-1945.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Burton, David H.
Oliver Wendell Holmes,
Jr.
Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1980.

Burton, David H., editor.
Progressive Masks: Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes,
Jr.,
and Franklin Ford.
Newark, DE. University of Delaware Press, 1982.

Cameron, Norman and R.H. Stevens, trans.
Hitler’s Table Talk:
1941-1944:
His Private Conversations.
New York City: Enigma Books, 2000.

Caplan, Arthur L., ed.
When Medicine Went Mad.
Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 1992.

Carlson, Elof Axel.
The Unfit: A History of a Bad Idea.
Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2001.

Chambers, Robert W.
The King in Yellow.
F. Tennyson Neely, 1895.

Chapman, Blanche Adams.
Wills and Administration of Elizabeth City County, Virginia 1688-1800.
N.p., 1980.

Charles, Joan.
Elizabeth City County, Virginia Will 1800-1859.
Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., n.d.