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Karl Brandt, an officer for the ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) who was Hitler's personal physician and the Nazis' chief medical officer, defended his egregious actions in citing, as a precedent, 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]], 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> who subsequently became a Nazi supporter.
Karl Brandt, an officer for the ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) who was Hitler's personal physician and the Nazis' chief medical officer, defended his egregious actions in citing, as a precedent, 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]], 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> who subsequently became a Nazi supporter.
''Buck v. Bell'' was also cited by Nazi defendant Otto Hafmann, who headed the SS Race and Settlement Office, to justify mass sterilization.<ref>Cohen, Adam (March 2016). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Imbeciles/z9TnCQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=nuremberg+buck+v.+bell&printsec=frontcover Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck], p. 303. ''Google Books''. Retrieved June 8, 2023.</ref> The 1961 movie ''Judgment at Nuremberg'' portrays a Nazi lawyer glowingly praising Justice Holmes as "that great American jurist."
==Atheistic United Kingdom and forced abortions==
==Atheistic United Kingdom and forced abortions==