Psychiatry’s Little-Known Role in Creating the Holocaust

The recent commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day reminds us to consider the causes of the Nazi genocide. Hitler found justification for his racism in the pseudo-science of eugenics, which means good genes or good race. Eugenics was developed by psychiatrists and psychologists long before the Third Reich. According to "The Master Race," an article in Boston Magazine, "Massachusetts was one of its epicenters, beginning at a time when Hitler was an aimless Austrian barely in his

The recent commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day reminds us to consider the causes of the Nazi genocide. Hitler found justification for his racism in the pseudo-science of eugenics, which means good genes or good race. Eugenics was developed by psychiatrists and psychologists long before the Third Reich. According to "The Master Race," an article in Boston Magazine, "Massachusetts was one of its epicenters, beginning at a time when Hitler was an aimless Austrian barely in his…