Nazi social policy extended breeding logic to urban improvement and elimination.

Evidence

The traditions of cattle breeders and other biological manipulators were deployed by the national-socialist science not only to the solution of the ‘Jewish question’. They offered inspiration to the totality of social policy under Nazism. Andreas Walther, a sociology professor from Hamburg and the leading urban sociologist of Nazi Germany, explained that ‘one cannot change human nature through education and environmental influence…National Socialism will not repeat blunders of the past attempts of urban improvement, by limiting itself to house building and hygienic improvements. Sociological research will determine who can be still saved…Hopeless cases will be eliminated [ausmerzen].’ — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 795

Categorization

• XREF: Directly anticipates Foucault’s biopolitics and the population-management rationality that later Islamophobia readings will invoke. — connects to: Social engineering ambition combined with concentrated power produced the Holocaust — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 224; Nazi racism was consonant with modern social-engineering worldviews rather than a medieval relapse — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 197

Related

• Nazi racism was consonant with modern social-engineering worldviews rather than a medieval relapse (similarity 0.83)
• The Nazi movement’s novelty was organizing the racial idea, not inventing it (similarity 0.82)
• The Holocaust was rational social management in scientific dress (similarity 0.80)
• Biology represents what social engineering cannot yet alter (similarity 0.79)
• Nazi extermination was a legitimate offspring of the modern spirit, not a regression (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Nazi racism was consonant with modern social-engineering worldviews rather than a medieval relapse #expands (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 197
• Social engineering ambition combined with concentrated power produced the Holocaust #corroborates (0.82) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 224