EXCERPT: ….one might conclude that the road to Hitler was paved with abortions. The Weimar Republic was a society committing suicide in slow motion. It could neither stop the killing of its unborn children nor control the degrading hedonism that accompanied this practice. In retrospect, one might call Weimar a very weak form of the culture of death, a preview of what now prevails in much of the Western world. It was so weak it easily caved in when confronted with a fiercer form of that same culture. For even under the Nazis the slaughter of the unborn continued. Hitler was gung-ho for eugenic abortion, and while he made abortion virtually inaccessible for German women of supposedly superior “stock,” he legalized it and sometimes made it (along with sterilization) compulsory for women of what he called “inferior races.” Thus did an enervated society cave in to a mad tyrant. Thus did Weimar’s “cultures of abortion” usher in the Holocaust. Perhaps we should take warning….
By Anne Barbeau Gardiner, New Oxford Review, December 2009
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The Weimar Republic Was a Society Committing Suicide in Slow Motion: Perhaps We Should Take Warning
By Anne Barbeau Gardiner, New Oxford Review, December 2009
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