The Glenn Beck Program - Ep 2 ｜ The Monster Masterminds of Eugenics ｜ The Beck Story

00:00:00.000 Every synagogue contains an ark, a sacred location where the scroll of the Torah is

00:00:11.180 kept. These arks often resemble a large wooden cabinet. One such ark is on display at the

00:00:17.760 museum in Frankfurt, Germany. It came from the synagogue of a small town outside of Frankfurt.

00:00:24.380 Across the top of this ark, there are words painted in Hebrew, except these words are

00:00:29.600 mauled and jagged cuts and deep slashes in the wood. The obvious work of people with hatchets and

00:00:37.580 daggers. The Hebrew lettering is so defaced that it's almost unreadable. The damage came from the

00:00:44.400 Nazi agents on the night of broken glass in 1938, when hundreds of synagogues across Germany were

00:00:51.320 vandalized and set on fire. The Hebrew inscription that the Nazis deface reads,

00:00:57.400 Know before whom you stand. At the heart of the so-called science of eugenics, which fueled the 0.95

00:01:06.520 Holocaust, was profound atheism. Science was the new God. 0.91

00:01:11.840 That's the voice of Dr. Karl Brandt, making his final statement on the stand at the Nuremberg trials

00:01:23.580 in 1947. Dr. Brandt was Hitler's personal physician. Hitler also put him in charge of the Nazis' euthanasia

00:01:31.960 program that began in 1939, less than a year after the night of broken glass. The program was kind of a

00:01:39.480 trial run for the final solution, which would begin two years later. To the Nazis, euthanasia was entirely

00:01:48.440 scientific and practical. It was about achieving the so-called racial integrity among true German people.

00:01:55.900 It involved killing people who were institutionalized or had disabilities. These were the genetically impure 1.00

00:02:03.560 that needed to be purged in order to cleanse the gene pool, to create a more perfect race. 0.99

00:02:10.420 Under the Nazis' euthanasia program, German doctors, nurses, and midwives were required to report all

00:02:18.440 children under the age of three that showed any sign of physical or mental disability. Once identified,

00:02:25.900 parents of these children were urged by authorities to admit their children to pediatric clinics for

00:02:31.660 specialized care. But inside these clinics, trained staff murdered the children, either by starvation or

00:02:39.980 lethal overdose. Just a few months after these killings began, the Nazis extended the program to include

00:02:47.080 disabled youth up to 17 years old. Conservative estimates are that over 10,000 German children were

00:02:55.780 murdered under this program. As part of his defense at the Nuremberg trials, Karl Brandt presented a

00:03:03.420 curious piece of evidence, excerpts from a book titled The Passing of the Great Race. One of the

00:03:10.940 excerpts read aloud in the courtroom says, quote, false faith in the sanctity of human life will result in

00:03:17.700 preventing the extermination of inferior children, as well as the sterilization of such adults who are

00:03:23.860 worthless or detrimental to the community. Natural law requires extermination of the incapable and human 1.00

00:03:31.720 life is only valuable if it is of use to the community or the race. Monstrous. Karl Brandt and his 0.71

00:03:39.560 lawyer emphasized that this book was written by a renowned zoologist, an influential man who had perhaps

00:03:46.320 done more than anyone to advance the science of eugenics. Hitler himself even wrote to the author of

00:03:54.060 The Passing of the Great Race and said, quote, this book is my Bible. Dr. Brandt argued that he had simply

00:04:02.700 carried out the rational science that was laid out by a non-German author. It would be hypocritical for the 0.98

00:04:09.580 international court to condemn Nazis for putting into practice the science that came from an allied

00:04:15.660 nation. The author quoted at Nuremberg was as Yankee doodle dandy as they come, an American from New York 0.75

00:04:25.700 named Madison Grant. Ever wonder why things are the way they are in America? Welcome to The Beck Story,

00:04:35.840 my podcast on how our past informs our present, charts our future. How did we get here? The first

00:04:43.700 season is about the cult of expertise in America, how it permeated our government, how this allegiance

00:04:50.080 to so-called expertise has far-reaching implications for our nation right now. A remarkably consistent

00:04:58.500 through line extends from the original progressive movement right through to the actions of left-wing

00:05:05.200 elites today. If there was a hall of fame for the most influential Americans that most people have

00:05:15.240 never heard of, Madison Grant might be one of the first inductees. He had an outside effect on American

00:05:23.060 history and unfortunately on world history too. Yet his influence has been largely brushed under the rug by

00:05:30.420 many progressive organizations that he started because today they're too embarrassed to acknowledge

00:05:36.160 that their founder was such a passionate racist and eugenicist. Madison Grant was born into the New York

00:05:43.440 City aristocracy in 1865, the year the Civil War ended. His family could trace their lineage all the way back

00:05:51.520 to the first English Puritans that populated New England. This lineage gave Grant the nativist claim

00:05:58.560 that would drive so much of his life's work. He was from the original stock that created the United

00:06:05.640 States. Therefore, he couldn't bear to see that original stock diluted and in his mind overtaken by what

00:06:13.500 he considered inferior people. To Madison Grant, that meant anyone who was not a very specific type of white

00:06:23.020 person. He earned a degree from Yale and a law degree from Columbia, but he never practiced law.

00:06:29.980 He didn't need to work because of his inherited family wealth, so he never held a traditional job.

00:06:35.900 Instead, he became an expert community organizer, and his community included the wealthiest, most powerful

00:06:43.680 men in New York City. Because Grant didn't have to work, he devoted himself full-time to his two passions,

00:06:50.620 hunting and activism. In the late 1800s, big game hunting in the western U.S. required tons of time

00:06:58.760 and money, and Grant had plenty of both. Hunting in the wilds of America became the alpha male,

00:07:05.940 respected thing to do among Grant's wealthy social tier in New York City. No one drove this elitist

00:07:12.840 hunting culture more than Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt, in fact, created an ultra-exclusive hunting club

00:07:20.120 called the Boone and Crockett Club, whose primary aim was, quote,

00:07:25.400 to promote manly sport with the rifle. The club was limited to 100 members, men only, and to even be

00:07:33.500 considered for a membership, you had to kill an animal from at least three different North American

00:07:38.820 species, including bear, buffalo, caribou, cougar, and several others. Madison Grant was invited to join

00:07:46.460 the club in 1893 and became a very good friend of Teddy Roosevelt. Because the Boone and Crockett

00:07:52.540 Club members were among the only Americans who could afford extensive big-game hunting trips,

00:07:59.100 they viewed America's backcountry as their special domain. They felt proprietary ownership of these

00:08:06.040 hunting grounds, and Madison Grant believed passionately that it was their right and duty

00:08:11.680 to protect this land. Grant and his fellow club members were concerned that the most prized

00:08:17.520 trophy animals were dwindling too fast and had to be conserved before it was too late. America needed

00:08:24.600 laws to protect animals from overhunting, so that Grant and his fellow elites would never run out of the

00:08:31.300 best animals to hunt for sport. So Grant almost single-handedly created modern hunting laws. He began his

00:08:39.860 activism in his home state of New York, getting a law passed to regulate deer hunting in the

00:08:44.760 Adirondacks. But just a few years later, he angered Alaskans by lobbying the U.S. Congress to pass the Alaska

00:08:52.680 Game Bill, which banned commercial hunting in the territory and created seasons and limits for sport

00:08:59.900 hunting. Grant never ran for public office. He didn't need to to get what he wanted. He had the time and the

00:09:06.780 money to perfect the art of twisting arms and became a master lobbyist. Grant was a devoted progressive,

00:09:15.120 so taking personal passion projects and seeing it through to federal legislation came very naturally to

00:09:21.700 him. It only took him six months to get the Alaska Game Bill passed. He worked his contacts, including

00:09:27.760 some congressmen who were members of the Boone and Crockett Club. And once Congress passed the bill,

00:09:33.060 his good friend Teddy Roosevelt, who by then was president, signed it into law.

00:09:41.060 Madison Grant articulated an important part of the progressive philosophy when he wrote,

00:09:46.580 quote, the law itself must be in advance of public opinion. That philosophy still courses through

00:09:52.240 progressive strategy today. You see it in things like the Biden White House policies related to fossil

00:09:57.740 fuels. According to a Pew Research Center study in 2023, the vast majority of Americans, 68%, are not

00:10:06.300 in favor of completely phasing out fossil fuel use. Yet President Biden signed an executive order

00:10:12.380 mandating that 50% of all new vehicles sold in the U.S. be electric or zero emission vehicles by 2030.

00:10:21.500 Folks, the rest of the world is moving ahead. We've just got to step up. Government, labor,

00:10:28.300 and industry working together, which you're seeing here today. We have a playbook and it's going to work.

00:10:33.980 Today, I'm announcing the steps we're taking to set a new pace for electric vehicles.

00:10:39.420 In this case, the president's executive order on EVs is well behind public opinion. But the left is

00:10:46.060 determined to force it anyway. A progressive with a playbook, who insists it's going to work whether

00:10:53.420 you like it or not, should make every American nervous.

00:11:00.700 Through his hunting expeditions and love for the outdoors, Madison Grant became an amateur

00:11:05.660 zoologist. He was actually credited with discovering several North American mammals.

00:11:10.940 The scientific name of one species of Alaskan caribou was even named after him.

00:11:16.380 Grant turned his love of animals into the co-founding of the New York Zoological Society

00:11:21.980 and the Bronx Zoo in 1899. Both are still in operation today.

00:11:28.620 Grant was either president or on the executive committee of the Zoological Society for the rest of

00:11:33.580 his life. He maintained tight control of the society, appointing several Boone and Crockett

00:11:39.020 Club members to the board. And while he was more than happy to accept money from Jewish donors,

00:11:45.500 he made sure no Jews were allowed to serve on the board.

00:11:49.820 Grant and his fellow influencers in the wildlife protection movement evolved from wanting to protect

00:11:55.500 animals for hunting to protecting animals so they wouldn't go extinct. Grant helped start the

00:12:02.060 American Bison Society and his tireless lobbying efforts led to the creation of the first federally

00:12:07.900 controlled national wildlife refuge for bison. From there, Grant's vision evolved to protecting

00:12:15.340 natural wonders. He founded the Save the Redwoods League, another organization still going today.

00:12:21.980 Those efforts led to the California State Board of Parks dedicating the largest known tree in the world

00:12:28.220 to Madison Grant and two of his cohorts in 1931. Grant was also heavily involved in the creation of

00:12:35.820 several national parks including Denali, Olympic, Everglades, and Glacier. Crucially for Grant and

00:12:43.420 his friends in his new conservation movement, their efforts became all about keeping the environment

00:12:49.580 pure. But much of this drive for purity would soon encompass much more than the environment.

00:12:56.860 There is only one definitive biography written about the life of Madison Grant. It's a fascinating

00:13:04.860 book called Defending the Master Race, Conservation, Eugenics, and the Legacy of Madison Grant. It was

00:13:12.780 written by historian Jonathan Spiro, and as Spiro put it, quote,

00:13:17.420 the conservation movement mirrored the progressive's enthrallment with scientific management. Hmm,

00:13:24.700 where have we heard that before? In case it doesn't ring a bell, make sure you catch episode one

00:13:30.060 of this season and find out how progressive became obsessed with scientific management.

00:13:36.220 Well, Madison Grant was a leading pioneer in the concept of wildlife management, experts in charge of

00:13:42.780 managing nature. But sometimes that effort brought unintended consequences. For instance, in the

00:13:48.380 early 1900s, the protection of elk in Yellowstone led to the overpopulation and the inability of the

00:13:55.340 elk to find enough food to survive. The elk then had to be scientifically managed, which meant

00:14:01.580 killing several thousand of them annually to ensure the survival of the species. Jonathan Spiro put it,

00:14:08.460 quote, wildlife management in some was the penultimate progressive idea. According to Madison Grant in

00:14:16.140 an article he wrote in 1909, natural selection had led to man's complete mastery of the globe. And that

00:14:23.980 meant his generation had, quote, the responsibility of saying what forms of life shall be preserved.

00:14:30.940 Tragically, Grant and his progressive generation would end up going much, much further with that idea.

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00:16:00.620 The huge crowd roared with laughter. Children squeezed through to the front of the horde for a closer look.

00:16:08.140 Some peered anxiously from behind their parents' legs. Madison Grant's Bronx Zoo. It had a brand

00:16:15.820 new exhibit in the primate section, a unique caged specimen which this rowdy New York crowd had never

00:16:24.460 seen before. The 4'11", 103-pound specimen suddenly rushed towards the bar of the cage, bearing its sharp

00:16:34.460 teeth with teeth which looked like they had been chiseled to a point. The crowd gasped and young

00:16:40.380 children recoiled and everybody laughed and clamored for more. New Yorkers were enthralled with this

00:16:48.140 African pygmy tribesman that recently arrived from the Congo. A 23-year-old man named Ota Benga. 1.00

00:16:59.340 Banga ended up in the Bronx Zoo in a roundabout way. In 1904, he traveled to the U.S. with a white 0.51

00:17:07.980 explorer named Dr. Samuel Werner who had purchased Banga at a slave market in the Congo. The Belgian 0.62

00:17:15.740 army had recently destroyed Banga's village and his wife and children died in the massacre. Dr.

00:17:21.580 Werner bought Banga to be part of an authentic African exhibit at the St. Louis World's Fair.

00:17:29.020 After the fair, they went back to Africa for a year. When Werner made plans to return to the U.S.,

00:17:35.500 Banga requested to go with him. Werner agreed and their first stop was New York.

00:17:42.940 To see if Madison Grant and his zoo colleagues wanted to buy a chimpanzee which they had brought

00:17:48.780 with them from Africa. The Bronx Zoo indeed purchased the chimp. Dr. Werner also asked if Ota Benga could

00:17:56.620 help out around the zoo for several weeks while Werner took care of some personal business down south.

00:18:02.620 The zoo's leadership agreed. So for several weeks, Banga lived at the zoo and assisted the zookeepers

00:18:09.420 with chores. Eventually, someone, we don't know exactly who, suggested Banga enter an empty cage in the

00:18:17.580 primate house. And he did. Well, it didn't take long for a crowd of spectators to turn into a throng.

00:18:25.020 The New York Times headline the next day declared,

00:18:27.980 Bushman shares a cage with Bronx Park apes.

00:18:33.020 Banga was an instant hit with visitors. Soon after his debut in the cage, thousands of New Yorkers

00:18:39.020 flooded into the zoo just to see him. Zoo leadership put a sign on the cage noting

00:18:44.060 Banga's age, height, weight, and where he was from. Not unlike the labels on 0.99

00:18:49.500 animal enclosures throughout the zoo. The sign also noted that he would be, quote,

00:18:55.500 exhibited every afternoon in September.

00:18:59.660 Ota Benga was so popular with visitors at the zoo, the zoo leadership extended his run into the fall and

00:19:05.900 added an orangutan to his cage. The New York Times report described one of the things that kept the

00:19:11.740 crowds laughing was that, quote, the pygmy was not much taller than the orangutan and one had a good

00:19:19.420 opportunity to study their points of resemblance. Their heads are much alike and both grin in the same

00:19:26.380 way when pleased. Historian Jonathan Spiro notes that when a reporter asked the zoo's director whether he

00:19:34.220 saw anything wrong with putting a man into a monkey cage. The director assured him that everything was

00:19:40.460 being done with the full approval of Madison Grant and that, quote, uh, the little black man is really 0.73

00:19:47.260 very comfortable there. The little fellow has one of the best rooms in the primate house. But after much

00:19:54.620 pressure from a group of black ministers, Madison Grant finally relented and Banga was no longer

00:20:00.700 displayed in a cage. Since Banga was still living at the zoo while he waited for Dr. Verner to return

00:20:07.500 for him, thousands of New Yorkers continued flocking to see Banga walking around the zoo grounds. The

00:20:13.740 crowds followed him everywhere and constantly harassed him. Aside from the main fact that the zoo used

00:20:20.300 Banga to sell a lot more tickets, he was also useful to Madison Grant and the zoo's leadership in another

00:20:27.900 vital way as a live example of their belief in Darwin's theory of evolution and that black people

00:20:36.460 were the missing link between apes and humans. The New York Times was all in on this view saying, quote,

00:20:43.820 evolution in one form or another is now taught in the textbooks of all the schools and that is no

00:20:51.420 more debatable than the multiplication table. For those early 20th century experts, you might say the

00:20:58.220 science was settled around evolution. Sound familiar? The shift to a cleaner energy economy won't happen

00:21:05.660 overnight and it will require some tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change

00:21:13.740 is a fact. That was then President Barack Obama in his 2014 State of the Union address. That's what

00:21:19.580 we're still being told every day about climate change. A group called Covering Climate Now was

00:21:25.900 founded in 2019 to insert climate change into as many news stories as possible around the world. Under

00:21:33.660 this group's guidelines on best practices for climate journalism, they say, quote,

00:21:38.780 there is simply no good faith argument against climate science. That really distills the modern

00:21:46.060 progressive ethos. If you don't agree with the experts, you must not be arguing in good faith.

00:21:53.900 One misconception about the history of racism in America is that it was primarily a southern sin.

00:22:01.580 The reality is that the racism of northern progressive elites fueled the nativist movement of the

00:22:07.980 the late 19th and early 20th centuries. And Madison Grant was their ringleader.

00:22:15.820 In 1916, Grant put his grand racist theories into a book called The Passing of the Great Race.

00:22:23.100 It's the book I mentioned at the start of this episode and the one that the Nazis used in their

00:22:27.740 defense at the Nuremberg trials. In his book, Grant said that white people from northern and western

00:22:34.140 Europe, whom he referred to as Nordics, had evolved in a harsh climate which helped make them physically 1.00

00:22:41.340 and mentally superior to all other races. He claimed that the greatest human achievements and progress

00:22:48.060 were work of the Nordics. According to Grant, this Nordic race was in danger of extinction thanks to the 0.81

00:22:56.060 pollution of the pollution of Nordic blood. He said this was happening because of the invasion of Alpine,

00:23:02.700 Mediterranean, and Jewish populations who were overtaking them. He called Slovaks, Italians, Syrians, and Jews

00:23:11.100 social discards. Immigration and intermarrying were causing all of society's problems. Grant lived through the 1.00

00:23:20.220 Ellis Island era, the massive immigration boom of late 1800s. He witnessed the transformation of his

00:23:26.860 beloved New York City. According to Grant, the so-called inferior races were ruining his city 1.00

00:23:34.060 and ruining America. He was angry at, quote, being literally driven off the streets by the swarms of

00:23:41.820 Polish Jews. That's why America, he said, desperately needed immigration restrictions.

00:23:48.860 Somehow, Grant never got around to explaining why a master race that was smarter and stronger than all

00:23:54.860 the other peoples on earth needed special government protection from these, quote, invaders. Grant wrote

00:24:02.620 that, quote, a wave of sentimentalism for black slaves developed out of the abolitionist movement in the

00:24:10.060 mid-1800s that caused Nordic racial pride to take a hit. That sentimentalism caused the tidal wave of

00:24:18.860 immigrants with, quote, inferior race value. In Grant's own words, these immigrants adopt the language of 1.00

00:24:27.180 the Native American. They wear his clothes, they steal his name, and they are beginning to take his women, 1.00

00:24:33.740 but they seldom adopt his religion or understand his ideals. And while he is being elbowed out of his

00:24:40.620 own home, the American looks calmly abroad and urges on others the suicidal ethics which are exterminating

00:24:48.140 his own race. And as for black Americans, Grant said they were valuable as long as they remained

00:24:55.420 willing followers who ask only to obey and to further the ideals and wishes of the master race.

00:25:01.740 Grant considered his 476-page book to be a serious scientific exploration of race. It was not scientific,

00:25:13.740 of course, but Grant had the veneer of scientific respect thanks to his work and the organizations

00:25:19.660 that he founded in the fields of conservation and zoology. And his vast network of wealthy progressive

00:25:27.020 elites helped prop him up as a legitimate man of science. There were glowing reviews in the scholarly

00:25:34.780 journals like Yale Review and the American Historical Review which applauded Grant for espousing, quote,

00:25:42.300 much solid scientific and historical truth with dignity and clearness. Theodore Roosevelt wrote to Grant

00:25:50.540 The Saturday Evening Post was the most widely read magazine in the U.S. at the time, and its editor had

00:26:06.860 gone to Yale with Madison Grant. The magazine went out of its way to promote Grant's book, endorsing his

00:26:14.380 racism and anti-immigrant stance. One article even declared, quote, every American who has at heart the

00:26:21.580 future of America owes it to himself and to his children to get and read carefully the passing of the

00:26:29.180 great race, end quote. Less than a year after Grant's book was published, he worked his magic lobbying

00:26:36.540 in Congress to restrict immigration by passing a literacy bill that required all adult immigrants

00:26:42.620 to pass a reading test before they could enter the U.S. The literacy bill was a good start, but it wasn't

00:26:48.940 enough for Grant. He said, no one should be allowed to enter the United States unless a visitor or traveler

00:26:56.300 except white men of superior intellectual capacity distinctly capable of becoming valuable American citizens.

00:27:04.140 Grant put his money and his time where his mouth was. As vice president of the Immigration Restriction

00:27:12.300 League, he lobbied hard for the Emergency Quota Act, which would set strict quotas based on national

00:27:19.740 origin, which meant much lower numbers of those so-called Alpine and Mediterranean types that he

00:27:26.620 loathed from Eastern and Southern Europe and Africa. Immigration from Asia and the Middle East was 0.74

00:27:32.300 totally banned. Grant actually assisted Congressman Albert Johnson of Washington, a progressive Republican,

00:27:39.420 in drafting the bill. Congressman Johnson gave a passionate speech before Congress in favor of the

00:27:45.180 bill in which he used research that Grant gave him. He even read excerpts from Grant's book on the House floor.

00:27:52.620 The Emergency Quota Act of 1921 passed the House 276-33. It sailed through the Senate 78-1.

00:28:05.580 Madison Grant convinced the U.S. Congress that the great race in America really was in danger of passing

00:28:12.300 away. But Grant's appetite for trying to get rid of people he considered inferior was never to be satisfied.

00:28:21.260 Fifteen years after he got the emergency quota bill passed and nearing the end of his life,

00:28:26.700 he committed to creating a $10,000 annual endowment, the equivalent of over $222,000 today, that would pay for the

00:28:36.380 lobbying effort to convince Congress to deport the 12 million black Americans who lived in the U.S. at the time

00:28:45.820 back to Africa. 0.94

00:28:56.460 Well, eventually, with help, Otabanga made it out of New York and away from the cruel crowds and primate 1.00

00:29:02.940 house at the Bronx Zoo. He remained in the U.S. for several years, learning English and converting to

00:29:09.180 Christianity. He had the opportunity to attend school in Virginia and later worked in a tobacco factory.

00:29:16.460 But he longed to return to the Congo. Just when he thought he might have the opportunity to do so,

00:29:22.540 World War I broke out and travel to the Congo was prohibited. As the war dragged on,

00:29:28.460 Benga fell into a deep depression. And in 1916, he stole a pistol and killed himself.

00:29:37.500 For Grant and his fellow progressives who have set themselves up as experts in conservation and in

00:29:43.340 the supposed science of race, it was an easy, natural progression from managing animals and land

00:29:50.940 to managing humanity. They would even invent a new expert-sounding, very scientific-sounding term

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00:31:16.620 Carrie Buck. She was a victim of a conspiracy by American experts in the brand new field of

00:31:23.260 eugenics. The state of Virginia had labeled her morally delinquent and diagnosed her as a 0.99

00:31:31.020 middle-grade moron. She was 17 years old. Carrie was mostly raised by foster parents who often 0.99

00:31:39.020 rented her out to do household chores for other families. When Carrie was 16, her foster mother's

00:31:45.180 nephew raped her and Carrie became pregnant. To save face, Carrie's foster parents had her 0.93

00:31:51.980 officially declared mentally deficient. She was allowed to give birth to her baby, a girl she named

00:31:58.380 Vivian. And then Carrie was shipped off to join her own birth mother at the Virginia colony for the 0.99

00:32:05.260 epileptic and feeble-minded. By the way, a prominent feature of progressivism has always been its command

00:32:13.740 of and spread of strategic language. The word moron was a technical term invented by the top eugenic 0.99

00:32:22.700 scientists of the time who were on a committee appointed by the American Association for the 0.98

00:32:29.020 study of the feeble-minded. This committee created a scale for rating feeble-minded people. Idiots had

00:32:37.980 the equivalent intelligence of a two-year-old. Imbeciles had the intelligence of a three to seven-year-old. 1.00

00:32:45.180 And morons? Well, they were the equivalent of an eight to ten-year-old. 1.00

00:32:52.300 The superintendent of the colony where Carrie Buck was sent to live was a devout eugenicist. He was

00:32:58.620 eager to find a test case, someone that could set a legal precedence that would allow Virginia's

00:33:04.460 new sterilization law to proceed without barriers. A case that would give these experts iron-clad

00:33:11.260 permission to sterilize whomever they deemed necessary. Carrie Buck presented that perfect 0.97

00:33:18.700 option. Her birth mother had already been declared feeble-minded and was committed in the same colony, 1.00

00:33:25.340 and now Carrie had a daughter, Vivian, who by then was eight months old. A eugenics expert from an 0.89

00:33:32.380 organization called the Eugenics Records Office in New York was brought in to evaluate Vivian.

00:33:38.940 Now, how do you test to see if a baby is officially feeble-minded? Well, this expert waved a coin back

00:33:46.780 and forth of the baby's face to see if her eyes tracked it. According to this expert, baby Vivian failed

00:33:53.900 the coin test. Well, the superintendent now had the proof he wanted that feeble-mindedness was genetic,

00:34:00.540 passed from one generation to the next through what the experts called defective bloodlines.

00:34:06.940 The board of Virginia Colony for the epileptic and feeble-minded mandated that Carrie Buck had to be 1.00

00:34:14.540 sterilized. Then, the board arranged for a lawyer to defend Carrie in court and oppose the board's 0.64

00:34:21.020 decision to sterilize her. It was a total setup. The lawyer that the board arranged for Carrie was

00:34:29.180 Irving Whitehead. He was a former member of the colony's board and a close friend of the colony's superintendent.

00:34:36.700 Whitehead barely pretended to mount any defense on Carrie's behalf. In court, he didn't question her

00:34:42.780 foster parents or bring up her rape or question the absurd so-called expert evidence of her feeble-mindedness. 0.67

00:34:50.540 He didn't call a single witness, even though he could have called her elementary school teachers to testify.

00:34:57.020 Carrie could read and write because she attended school through the fifth grade and was reportedly a

00:35:01.980 very good student, until her foster parents didn't let her go anymore.

00:35:06.460 Carrie Buck, predictably, lost in court, just like her expert overseers had designed. Her lawyer submitted a

00:35:16.700 sham appeal and she lost there too. The only thing that could stop the now 18-year-old from being 1.00

00:35:23.260 sterilized against her will was the U.S. Supreme Court. 0.99

00:35:29.900 Now, the term eugenics is adapted from a Greek word that means well-born or good in stock. A British

00:35:38.060 man named Francis Galton coined the term eugenics in 1883 to apply to the rising belief at the time

00:35:46.220 that a major way to improve society is to regulate human reproduction. Galton was a cousin of Charles

00:35:54.140 Darwin. Galton took Darwin's survival of the fittest concept and applied it to people. Thus,

00:36:00.380 certain races of people were more involved, more fit to survive, and therefore superior to others.

00:36:07.660 Madison Grant's Nordic race of white people were at the top of this pyramid. In 1865,

00:36:15.100 Galton published a book titled Hereditary Talent and Character, which historian Jonathan Spiro calls,

00:36:22.300 quote, the founding document of the eugenics movement. Galton hoped eugenics would become

00:36:28.540 the new religion of the 20th century. If that wish didn't fully come true, it wasn't for the lack of

00:36:34.860 elite congregants in America. And one of the top disciples of the eugenics religion was Madison Grant.

00:36:41.580 Grant threw himself into supporting and promoting the eugenics movement with the same fervor he devoted 0.80

00:36:48.940 to animal and land preservation. To him, nothing less than the preservation of his race was at stake.

00:36:57.660 In 1918, Grant co-founded the Galton Society, named after the founder of the eugenics movement.

00:37:04.700 Grant frequently hosted meetings of eugenics organizations in his Manhattan townhouse.

00:37:10.540 He served for a time as the president of the Eugenics Research Association. He co-founded the

00:37:16.540 American Eugenics Society in the parlor of his home. Within two years, the society which had promoted

00:37:23.420 eugenics education and policies had over 1,200 members from 45 states. Grant helped organize and fund the

00:37:31.580 international eugenics congresses, twice hosted at the American Museum of Natural History in New York

00:37:38.300 City, where he happened to be on the museum's executive committee. Grant was the ultimate insider and

00:37:46.300 stealthy behind-the-scenes operator. When he backed an effort like eugenics, he wasn't just a cheerleader.

00:37:53.580 He didn't just sign a pledge card or give a few bucks. He was the guy who created the organization,

00:38:00.860 helped draft that organization's constitution, handpicked the organization's board members,

00:38:06.380 and letterhead, and held a top position in the organization himself. He hosted fundraising dinners,

00:38:13.420 and personally lobbied countless state and federal lawmakers. He was the brain behind the operation.

00:38:20.380 Remember, he was independently wealthy, so he never had to work a traditional job.

00:38:27.100 Activism was his life's work. He was kind of like an early 1900s version of George Soros,

00:38:34.140 devoting his wealth and his time to his progressive passions. In his infamous book,

00:38:40.620 The Passing of the Great Race, Grant wrote,

00:38:43.420 A rigid system of selection through the elimination of those who are weak or unfit,

00:38:48.780 in other words, social failures, would solve the whole question in 100 years,

00:38:54.940 as well as enable us to get rid of the undesirables who crowd our jails, hospitals, 1.00

00:39:00.220 and insane asylums. The individual himself can be nourished, educated, and protected by the community

00:39:05.980 during his lifetime. But the state through sterilization must see to it that his line

00:39:11.740 stops with him. Within a decade of his co-founding the American Eugenics Society,

00:39:18.300 the group's legislation committee had helped create laws in 41 states banning the marriage

00:39:24.620 of feeble-minded and insane. 17 other states also prohibited marrying epileptics. By the late 1920s,

00:39:32.460 75 percent of American universities offered eugenics courses. Eugenics was considered top-edge science.

00:39:41.580 Madison Grant and his peers in the booming American Eugenics movement were opposed to improving

00:39:46.860 health conditions for the segments of the population they considered unfit. They were concerned that modern

00:39:53.100 food and medicine were interfering with the law of natural selection. In other words, unfit people

00:39:59.340 weren't being allowed to die off from disease and poverty like nature intended. And even worse,

00:40:06.220 these unnatural survivors were reproducing. Well, to help solve that problem, 0.94

00:40:12.380 Grant recommended mandatory sterilization for, as he put it,

00:40:16.780 an ever-widening circle of social discards, beginning always with the criminal, the diseased, 0.51

00:40:22.060 and the insane, and extending gradually to types which may be called weaklings. And perhaps

00:40:27.100 ultimately to worthless race types. Remember Grant's pioneering efforts in wildlife management? 1.00

00:40:33.420 How sometimes you have to cull the herd to ensure its survival? The eugenics experts carried the same 0.99

00:40:40.220 principle over to humans, especially the physically and mentally disabled. To these experts, this was

00:40:47.020 simply logical human conservation. And there was probably no more radical crusader in this human

00:40:53.500 conservation movement than a woman named Margaret Sanger.

00:41:03.580 The Mike Wallace interview.

00:41:06.780 When Mrs. Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the United States back in 1916, 0.98

00:41:12.300 birth control was a dirty word. The police threw her into jail as they were to do seven more times 1.00

00:41:18.620 during her crusade, a crusade that still faces the reasoning but unalterable opposition of the Roman

00:41:25.020 Catholic Church. In January 1914, Margaret Sanger finally landed on the right name for her cause.

00:41:33.900 She would call it birth control. She wrote. We tried population control, race control, and birth rate

00:41:41.980 control. Then someone suggested drop the rate. Birth control was the answer. We knew we had it.

00:41:47.740 She started a magazine called Birth Control Review, in which she boiled down the essence of her work.

00:41:54.220 More children from the fit, less from the unfit. That is the chief issue of birth control.

00:41:59.180 Of all the American eugenicists, Margaret Sanger's legacy extends the most prominently into our present.

00:42:07.660 In 1921, she founded the American Birth Control League. Today, you know it as Planned Parenthood.

00:42:14.540 The National Council of Sanger's American Birth Control League included many key members of the

00:42:19.740 American Eugenics Society. Sanger called eugenics and birth control...

00:42:24.460 The right and left hand of one body. One of Sanger's dreams, which was fortunately never

00:42:29.980 realized, was her proposal for a federal bureau of application for the unborn. Her plan would have 0.97

00:42:37.820 forced married couples to apply to the government to become parents. You could have a baby if you had 1.00

00:42:44.860 a government license. This is how Margaret Sanger described her cause in an article she wrote for 0.99

00:42:50.940 the New York Times in 1923. Birth control is not contraception indiscriminately and thoughtlessly

00:42:57.340 practiced. It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our society,

00:43:03.180 and the gradual suppression, elimination, and eventual extirpation of defective stocks,

00:43:09.340 those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization. 0.99

00:43:14.300 This is the sinister truth underlying Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry from the beginning.

00:43:23.180 More than being about a woman's right to choose or female empowerment, it was racism. In Sanger's own

00:43:31.340 words, it was about cultivation of the better racial elements of our society. It was all about white 0.99

00:43:39.340 supremacy. In a 2009 interview with the New York Times, the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader

00:43:45.740 Ginsburg admitted, whether she meant to or not, what abortion and the Roe v. Wade decision was really

00:43:52.700 all about. She said, and I quote, frankly, I had thought at the time Roe was decided, there was concern

00:44:01.100 about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.

00:44:08.460 So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion. 0.99

00:44:15.660 Wow. Despite the racist, eugenics-based underpinnings of abortion in America,

00:44:22.700 Planned Parenthood presented the Margaret Sanger Award annually to recognize, quote,

00:44:29.020 leadership, excellence, and outstanding contributions to the reproductive health and rights movement.

00:44:35.740 The award appears to have been discontinued after 2015, but past winners include Nancy Pelosi,

00:44:42.460 Hillary Clinton, and Jane Fonda. After the BLM riots in the summer of 2020, the Planned Parenthood

00:44:49.020 of Greater New York removed Margaret Sanger's name from the Manhattan Clinic due to what they called her 1.00

00:44:55.180 racist legacy. One might say that after a century, they finally grew a conscience,

00:45:02.540 but they're still killing babies. So the Sanger mission continues. Planned Parenthood continues to

00:45:09.420 be wildly successful in carrying out Sanger's vision. Just since Roe v. Wade passed in 1973,

00:45:15.820 there have been an estimated 20 million black American abortions. According to the CDC,

00:45:22.540 black women currently account for the largest share, 38% of all U.S. abortions. 0.88

00:45:31.260 In 1927, Kerry Buck's sterilization case finally made it before the Supreme Court. Kerry was 21 years

00:45:37.900 old by then. But in that dangerous era of scientific racism and eugenics, the pseudoscience spread by 0.70

00:45:45.340 Madison Grant, Margaret Sanger, and scores of other academic and medical elites of their time,

00:45:50.700 Kerry Buck never had a chance. The U.S. Supreme Court was dominated by progressives as it would be for

00:45:57.900 the next century. Justices included Louis Brandeis, whom you'll remember from episode one of this season.

00:46:04.300 The court ruled against Kerry Buck 8 to 1. The radically progressive justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

00:46:12.700 wrote in the majority opinion, quote, "...the principle that sustains compulsory vaccination

00:46:18.140 is broad enough to cover cutting the fallopian tubes." In justifying Kerry's sterilization,

00:46:23.900 Holmes also wrote in the opinion, quote, "...it is better for all the world if instead of waiting 0.99

00:46:29.820 to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, 0.93

00:46:35.900 society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. Three generations of 1.00

00:46:43.580 imbeciles are enough." Later that year, Kerry Buck went under the knife against her will. A doctor in 1.00

00:46:52.300 the Virginia colony for the epileptic and feeble-minded removed part of her fallopian tubes. It was the first 0.98

00:47:00.300 state-mandated operation under Virginia's new sterilization law. There would be 65,000 more

00:47:08.140 Americans sterilized by state government mandates before the last of these laws was finally repealed

00:47:14.860 in the 1970s. Two years after her operation, Kerry Buck was released from the colony, but she was never

00:47:23.180 reunited with her daughter Vivian. Vivian was adopted by the couple who had been Kerry's foster parents,

00:47:29.580 the ones who had Kerry committed to the colony in the first place. The eugenics expert had been totally

00:47:36.460 wrong about Vivian. She was not feeble-minded at all. In fact, she was an honor roll student in elementary 0.99

00:47:43.260 school. Tragically, Vivian died of an intestinal infection when she was only eight years old. Two decades

00:47:51.980 after the Supreme Court's decision in Kerry Buck's case, the Nazi SS officer read the summary of the

00:47:59.260 decision from Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes as part of the Nazi defense at the Nuremberg trials.

00:48:07.580 See? The Nazi leaders, in effect, were saying, we didn't invent the playbook for weeding out

00:48:13.820 undesirables. And they weren't entirely wrong about that.

00:48:18.940 The Nazi's euthanasia program was well underway in 1939, when a German steamship called the St. Louis,

00:48:31.340 flying a Nazi flag, loitered just off the coast of Miami. There were over 900 passengers on the St.

00:48:39.100 Louis, most of whom were Jews. The night of broken glass had happened just seven months earlier, 0.95

00:48:45.820 and it was more than enough reason to flee Germany. The St. Louis was never supposed to be near Miami.

00:48:52.380 The ship first stopped in Havana, Cuba. Most of the Jewish passengers planned to stay in Cuba while

00:48:58.860 they waited to be admitted to the United States. They had purchased a Cuban visa in Germany. But when

00:49:05.180 they arrived in Havana after the two-week journey across the Atlantic, Cuban officials informed them that

00:49:11.020 their landing permits had been canceled. The Jewish refugees were not allowed off the ship.

00:49:18.460 The ship then remained in Havana for a week. But Cuba refused to budge and finally forced the St. 0.91

00:49:25.260 Louis to leave. The passengers decided to head to Miami to try their luck with the American authorities.

00:49:32.780 They sent a desperate petition to the White House asking for sanctuary. But President Roosevelt ignored

00:49:40.060 the cable. The U.S. slammed its door shut to the Jewish refugees. Congress had passed the emergency 1.00

00:49:46.860 quota bill almost 20 years earlier. The bill spearheaded by Madison Grant. The bill that was

00:49:53.180 designed to admit the right kind of white people. Sorry, the St. Louis passengers were told.

00:50:00.060 U.S. law only allowed a combined 27,000 people from Germany and Austria per year.

00:50:07.580 And that quota was already filled for 1939. And the waiting list was years long.

00:50:14.860 In the end, the St. Louis had no choice but to return to Europe. Close to one-third of the Jewish 1.00

00:50:20.140 passengers made it to Great Britain and survived the war. But it was a death sentence for all the rest,

00:50:27.180 most of whom ended up in Nazi concentration camps. 254 of them died in the Holocaust.

00:50:36.860 In 1989, a survivor of the St. Louis remembered the tantalizing view of Miami's palm trees by day and

00:50:43.740 the city's lights at night from their ship as it bobbed off the Florida coast. She told the Miami

00:50:49.420 Herald, quote, we were not wanted. We were abandoned by the world. Nearly a decade before the St. Louis was

00:50:57.900 forced to return to Europe, Hitler told the New York Times, quote, it was America who taught us a

00:51:04.460 nation should not open its doors equally to all nations. The Nazis had a slogan that is often credited

00:51:12.780 to Rudolf Hess, who was one of Hitler's deputies. The slogan went like this, national socialism is

00:51:20.220 nothing but applied biology. When Hitler came to power, one of the first laws passed under his rule 0.93

00:51:27.260 was the German sterilization law. Within six years, 400,000 Germans had been sterilized.

00:51:36.060 Those numbers led one Virginia doctor who had testified in Kerry Buck's sterilization case

00:51:41.500 to complain, quote, the Germans are beating us at our own game, end quote.

00:51:46.380 Throughout the 1920s and 30s, Madison Grant corresponded regularly with top Nazi academics

00:51:55.820 and researchers in the field of eugenics. In 1936, the Nazi government made Grant's book,

00:52:02.220 The Passing of the Great Race, one of only two non-German books on an official reading list

00:52:08.540 for German scientists studying human heredity. In his book, Grant wrote,

00:52:14.540 Man has the choice of two methods of race improvement. He can breed from the best,

00:52:20.140 or he can eliminate the worst by segregation or sterilization. The laws of nature require

00:52:25.500 the obliteration of the unfit, and human life is valuable only when it is of use to the community 0.91

00:52:31.500 or the race. The Nazi's euthanasia program that began in 1939 quickly grew to include much more than

00:52:44.380 physically handicapped babies and children. They soon graduated to killing adults, 1.00

00:52:49.900 at least 70,000 of them, whom the state deemed infirm, insane, or incurably ill.

00:52:56.700 It was murder. But the preferred Nazi term was disinfection. The program used lethal injections

00:53:05.020 at first, then it moved to gas chambers, showers, and mental hospitals. Nurses removed any gold from

00:53:11.580 the victim's teeth before the bodies were cremated. It was all dress rehearsal for the exponential

00:53:17.660 escalation of carnage that soon followed. In fact, as Germany's psychiatric hospitals ran out of

00:53:24.460 patients because they'd been killed, the staff and equipment were transferred to Nazi death camps,

00:53:30.220 including Treblinka, Sobibor, and Auschwitz.

00:53:36.620 In 1937, Hitler's chosen successor, Hermann Goering, had a great idea, an international 0.70

00:53:43.740 hunting exposition to be held in Berlin. It would be a three-week-long festival to promote

00:53:49.500 goodwill among elite international hunters. Goering was a great admirer of American Madison Grant,

00:53:56.540 so Grant was invited to attend, and he was even on the VIP shortlist to go hunting with Goering himself.

00:54:05.180 Grant was making preparations to attend Goering's hunting extravaganza when he died of kidney disease.

00:54:12.620 Grant was 71. Even though Grant devoted the last half of his life to preserving the supposedly

00:54:19.580 endangered white race, he never married and he never had children. 0.64

00:54:25.020 Historian Jonathan Spiro rightly points out that, quote,

00:54:29.100 neither Madison Grant nor any other eugenicist, German or American, can be said to have caused the

00:54:35.340 Holocaust, but they certainly provided the scientific justification for what had occurred.

00:54:43.260 For such an influential figure in the conservation and eugenics movements, 0.96

00:54:48.060 the extent to which Madison Grant has been erased from history is remarkable.

00:54:54.300 Though Grant co-founded the New York Zoological Society, now called the Wildlife Conservation Society,

00:55:01.100 there's no mention of him in its history or on its website. At the American Museum of Natural History

00:55:07.100 in New York where Grant was on the Executive Committee for years and where he twice hosted the International

00:55:12.860 Eugenics Congress, his name also has vanished without a trace. In 2021, an excavator removed a large stone

00:55:23.660 monument that was a monument. A monument to Madison Grant for his tireless efforts to save California's redwood trees.

00:55:40.940 World War II opened America's eyes to the evil of eugenics and torpedoed the movement as mainstream science.

00:55:48.140 However, it did not completely destroy eugenics. The true believers, like Margaret Sanger, refused to let it die. 0.93

00:55:55.900 Here's Sanger in 1957 in an interview with Mike Wallace.

00:56:01.020 Do you believe there is such a thing as a, as sin?

00:56:04.300 I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world 1.00

00:56:07.740 that have been diseased from their parents, that have no chance in the world to be a human being, 0.65

00:56:13.660 practically. Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things, just mock when they're born. That, to me,

00:56:19.340 is the greatest sin that people can commit. Now, eugenics rears its head in technology, 0.94

00:56:26.380 like genetic screening, so-called designer babies. A 2022 U.S. Senate Committee report estimates that

00:56:34.140 60 to 90 percent of children diagnosed with Down syndrome through prenatal testing are aborted in the

00:56:41.260 U.S. In Iceland, where prenatal testing is even more widespread, almost 100 percent of pregnancies

00:56:48.860 that receive a positive test for Down syndrome are killed. Eugenics is also back in the form of

00:56:56.380 euthanasia, but now it's referred to as medical assistance in dying, or death care. Death care is

00:57:04.220 now legal in Australia, Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, as well as in 10 U.S. states so far.

00:57:13.580 In a creepy nod to the original eugenicist, the conditions that doctors deemed to be an appropriate

00:57:20.700 reason to die keep expanding. Hearing loss, autism, post-traumatic stress disorder have qualified

00:57:29.740 patients to die recently in Canada, the Netherlands, and Belgium. Australia and Canada are mandating

00:57:37.740 that death care be offered or hospitals can lose their government funding. Just as blatantly

00:57:43.580 unscientific as Madison Grant's repulsive theories on race superiority is the pseudoscience of

00:57:50.860 transgenderism, especially in how it's aimed at children. Like with Grant's theories and the 0.55

00:57:56.940 eugenics movement, the academic, medical, and political establishment on the left have moved

00:58:02.780 in concert at lightning speed to legitimize the latest pseudoscience. This was President Joe Biden's

00:58:10.780 message from the White House in 2022. To everyone celebrating Transgender Day of Visibility,

00:58:18.220 I want you to know that your president sees you. Jill, Kamala, Doug, our entire administration sees you

00:58:24.940 for who you are. And we're committed to advancing transgender equality in the classroom, on the playing

00:58:31.020 field, at work, in our military, in our housing and healthcare systems, everywhere, simply everywhere.

00:58:37.420 To parents of transgender children, affirming your child's identity is one of the most

00:58:41.740 powerful things you can do to keep them safe and healthy.

00:58:45.580 Fortunately, there are still some doctors who have not jumped on this bandwagon and are willing

00:58:51.020 to speak out against the madness. This is Dr. Miriam Grossman testifying before a congressional committee

00:58:58.060 in 2023. I'm going to use my time to respond to Dr. McNamara. First, I'm struck by her use of the phrase

00:59:07.340 sex assigned at birth. Sex is not assigned at birth. Sex is established at conception, and it's recognized 0.54

00:59:19.580 at birth, if not earlier. Dr. McNamara claims that her views are science-based, but to claim that sex is

00:59:27.740 assigned at birth is without any scientific basis whatsoever. Its language misleads people, especially

00:59:35.420 children, into thinking that male and female are arbitrary designations and can change. That is simply not

00:59:43.820 true. I'll end by quoting Jamie Reed, the courageous whistleblower from the Children's Gender Clinic in

00:59:51.580 St. Louis. I believe that that hospital receives the medical education funding that we're discussing today.

00:59:58.060 She said that doctors at that clinic said,

01:00:00.300 We are building the plane while we are flying it. We are building the plane while we are flying it.

01:00:12.620 That's how they described the treatment at their gender clinic. Our precious tax dollars 0.98

01:00:18.940 should not support such a perilous experiment. Planned Parenthood is playing a large role in this

01:00:26.620 perilous experiment. They are now the second largest provider of transgender-related services 0.99

01:00:32.620 in the U.S. Planned Parenthood's website tells visitors,

01:00:37.100 In most cases, your clinician will be able to prescribe hormones the same day as your first visit.

01:00:44.700 No letter from a mental health provider is required. Apparently, these transgender services are 1.00

01:00:50.940 great for business. The latest numbers available at the time of recording of this episode

01:00:55.740 show that in 2022, revenue over expenses was almost $205 million. And it's also great for

01:01:04.140 staying true to Margaret Sanger's vision. What a better way to expand birth control than to render

01:01:10.540 healthy people unable to have children thanks to cross-sex hormone treatments and gender reassignment 0.99

01:01:17.500 surgeries. It is sterilization, just under a different name. A hundred years of scientific and technological

01:01:26.220 advances has not increased our moral enlightenment over Madison Grant and Margaret Sanger and their

01:01:32.620 fellow eugenicists. Less than a century ago, the world's elite thinkers believed that there was legitimate

01:01:39.580 scientific basis for inferior races. Today, an elite class of thinkers believe it is best practice to give gender dysphoric 0.72

01:01:50.460 children puberty blockers. Ideology disguised as science is insidious. From the moment of its invention by Francis Galton,

01:02:01.820 Eugenics and Eugenics in all of its iterations was and continues to be an anti-life movement. It is twisted

01:02:10.540 philosophy rife with elitism, self-styled experts, and the progressive obsession with government control. When a

01:02:19.900 government invokes science to justify policy that restricts freedom or worse, healthy skepticism of that

01:02:27.100 science is a must if life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is to survive.

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Ep 2 ｜ The Monster Masterminds of Eugenics ｜ The Beck Story

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