Afterword

Abstract

The first edition of this book appeared in German in the mid-1990s. Many times, my colleagues asked me why I did not publish it in English, as I did with my more narrowly focused book, The Nazi Connection. Eugenics, American Racism and German National Socialism (Kühl 1994). At the time, I assumed that most scholars, in addition to reading English, would at least have read the German and French literature. However, in reviewing the material on eugenics that has appeared in the twenty-first century, it has become clear to me that academics researching the history of eugenics outside of Europe often have difficulties with a book in German. As a result, a number of problems in understanding my ideas on the international eugenics movement have arisen.¹