Resumen de Pädagogik und Eugenik im 'rassenhygienischen': Diskurs vor 1933
Eugenic dreams of re‐making people have taken on a new reality against the background of scientific and technological developments in modern genetics. Thus, it seems all the more important to recall the historical experience with the concept of “Rassenhygiene” in the early 20th century and during the Nazi period in Germany. The central ideas that the Nazis tried to implement, had already been formulated by the German eugenic movement before 1933: eugenic perfection combined with “völkisch” and racial purity. This movement and these ideas spread to the educational discourse. Eugenic or “rassenhygienisch” concepts of education were intended to spread eugenic knowledge, to foster a new eugenic ethic, and to instil a new selective attitude in sexual choice. In addition, structural reforms of educational systems were sought in the direction of intensified selectivity, especially of groups and individuals supposed to be not worth living.
