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twentieth century, their escapades were of minor historical account when 
compared with the eugenics program orchestrated by the Nazis in the 19 30's 
and 40' s. Million of Jews and other religious and ethnic groups were gassed 
in the German crematoriums to advance the Third Reich's dream of elimin- 
ating all but the "Aryan" race from the globe. The Nazis also embarked on a 
"positive" eugenics program in which thousands of S.S. officers and German 
women were carefully selected for their "superior" genes and mated under 
the auspices of the state. Impregnated women were cared for in state 
facilities and their offspring were donated to the Third Reich as the 
vanguard for the new super race that would rule the world for the next 
millenium. 
Eugenics lay dormant for nearly a quarter of a century after World War II. 
Then the spectacular breakthroughs in molecular biology in the 1960's raised 
the spectre of a eugenics revival once again. By the mid 1970's, many 
scientists were beginning to worry out loud that the potential for genetic 
engineering might lead to a return to the kind of eugenics hysteria that 
swept over America and Europe earlier in the century. Speaking at a 
National Academy of Science forum on recombinant DNA, Ethan Signer, a 
biologist at MIT, warned his colleagues that 
this research is going to bring us one more step closer to 
genetic engineering of people. That's where they figure out 
how to have us produce children with ideal 
characteristics. ..Last time around, the ideal children had 
blonde hair, blue eyes and Aryan genes. 
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