Review – The Eugenics Crusade

Just in case anyone needs a reminder (or worse, this is new information to you), the Nazis didn’t invent eugenics. This installment of American Experience documents the monstrous philosophy’s heyday in the United States prior to World War Two. Though we didn’t make it all the way to death camps here, things were still plenty bad for awhile (and parts of the madness linger still). The documentary does a solid job of covering the rise, the fall and the issues that came up while eugenics held sway. Worth seeing