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    “Revisiting the Three Generations of Imbeciles: The Impact of Buck v. Bell on the American Eugenics Movement” by Hanbee O.

    Introduction Figure 1: A Nazi propaganda advocating eugenics.[1] First coined by Francis Galton in 1883, the term “eugenics” refers to a social movement that seeks to control the physical and mental qualities of the future generations.[2] The concept of eugenics may have had positive connotation in its beginning, but after the atrocities of the Third Reich, eugenics now represent one of the darkest chapters in human history. Figure 1 illustrates one of the propaganda posters used by the Nazis in their eugenic campaign. The German text in the poster means the following: “60,000 Reichsmarks is the cost to take care of this hereditarily flawed person for lifetime. Fellow citizen, that…