| | 'Crimes against humanity: namely, murder, extermination...and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population, before or during the war... whether or not in violation of the domestic law of the country where perpetrated.'|||"Human Rights and the Unborn Child," p. 186}} | | 'Crimes against humanity: namely, murder, extermination...and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population, before or during the war... whether or not in violation of the domestic law of the country where perpetrated.'|||"Human Rights and the Unborn Child," p. 186}} |
| − | Karl Brandt, an officer for the ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) who was Hitler's personal physician and the Nazi's chief medical officer, defended his egregious actions in citing the [[United States Supreme Court]] ruling in ''[[Buck v. Bell]]'', authored by [[Social Darwinist]], Progressive justice [[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.]], which legalized compulsory sterilization.<ref>Lombardo, Paul A. (November 10, 2008). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Three_Generations_No_Imbeciles/Z_dSEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=nuremberg+buck+v.+bell&printsec=frontcover Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck V. Bell]. ''Google Books''. Retrieved June 8, 2023</ref> | + | Karl Brandt, an officer for the ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) who was Hitler's personal physician and the Nazi's chief medical officer, defended his egregious actions in citing the [[United States Supreme Court]] ruling in ''[[Buck v. Bell]]'', authored by [[Social Darwinist]], Progressive justice [[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.]], which legalized compulsory sterilization.<ref>Lombardo, Paul A. (November 10, 2008). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Three_Generations_No_Imbeciles/Z_dSEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=nuremberg+buck+v.+bell&printsec=frontcover Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck V. Bell]. ''Google Books''. Retrieved June 8, 2023</ref> In addition, Brandt "cited Harry Laughlin's 1914 proposal calling for the sterilization of fifteen million Americans." Laughlin, a hardline racist pro-eugenics activist of the [[Progressive Era]] who became a support of Nazi Germany, was an associate of [[Margaret Sanger]] in the organization Population Association of America.<ref>Hansen, Randall; King, Desmond (August 26, 2013). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Sterilized_by_the_State/IjUUAgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=harry+laughlin+margaret+sanger&printsec=frontcover Sterilized by the State: Eugenics, Race, and the Population Scare in Twentieth-Century North America], p. 190. ''Google Books''. Retrieved June 8, 2023.</ref> |