Eugenic Aspect of the Policy of “Healing” the Nation in Hitler's Germany: Theory and Practice

The article attempts a comprehensive analysis of the essential aspects of the eugenic project, the implementation of which was undertaken by the Hitler regime. Back in the pre-Nazi period, a theoretical basis was laid in Germany, based on which the leaders of the Third Reich began to put into practice the ideas of negative eugenics. The main directions of racial policy, which had a clearly marked eugenic character, were the “solution” and then the “final solution” of the “Jewish question”, the extermination of the “non-Aryan” population of the territories occupied during World War II and Soviet prisoners of war, forced sterilization and “euthanasia” of the German population considered as a “social ballast”, the activities of the union “Lebensborn” for the breeding of the “perfect” race. With Germany's defeat in the war, the regime's eugenic policy, which bore clear signs of genocide, designed to integrate Germans into a racially homogeneous “people's community” and, at the same time, play the role of a perversely interpreted existential factor, failed without bringing the expected results.