International Federation's 1928 Munich meeting, speaking on `` Mental Aberration and Race
Hygiene, '' while others (Germans and Americans) spoke on race-mixing and sterilization of theunfit. Ru@audin had also led the German delegation to the 1930 Mental Hygiene Congress in
Washington, D.C.
At the Harrimans' 1932 New York Eugenics Congress, Ernst Ru@audin was unanimously elected
president of the International Federation of Eugenics Societies. This was recognition of Ru@aas founder of the German Society for Race Hygiene, with his co-founder, Eugenics Federation viceudin (^)
president Alfred Plo@autz.
As depression-maddened financiers schemed in Berlin and New York, Ru@audin was now official
leader of the world eugenics movement. Components of his movement included groupsoverlapping leadership, dedicated to: with
sterilization of mental patients (mental hygiene societies ''); execution of the insane, criminals and the terminally ill ( euthanasia societies ''); and
eugenical race-purification by prevention of births to parents from inferior '' blood stocks ( birth
control societies '').Before the Auschwitz death camp became a household word, these British-American-European
groups called openly for the elimination of the unfit '' by means including force and violence.@s1@s2 Ten months later, in June 1933, Hin the new Third Reich. Frick called the Germans a degenerate '' race, denouncing one-fifth ofitler's interior minister Wilhelm Frick spoke to a eugenics meeting
Germany's parents for producing feeble-minded '' and defective '' children. The following
month, on a commission by Frick, Dr. Ernst Ru@audin wrote the Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases in Posterity, '' the sterilization law modeled on previous U.S. statutes in Virginia and other states. Special courts were soon established for the sterilization of German mental patients, the blind, the deaf and alcoholics. A quarter million people in these categories were sterilized. Ru@audin, Plo@autz and their colleagues trained a whole generation of physicians and psychiatrists--as sterilizers and as killers. When the war started, the eugenicists, doctors and psychiatrists staffed the new T4 '' agency,
which planned and supervised the mass killings: first at euthanasia centers, '' where the same categories which had first been subject to sterilization were now to be murdered, their brains sent in lots of 200 tJews and other race victims, at straight extermination camps in Poland, such as Treblinka ando experimental psychiatrists; then at slave camps such as Auschwitz; and finally, for Belsen.@s1@s3 In 1933, as what Hitler called his New Order '' appeared, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. appointed
William S. Farish the chairman of Standard Oil Co. of Nand chief executive). Farish moved his offices to Rockefeller Center, New York, where he spent aew Jersey (in 1937 he was made president
good deal of time with Hermann Schmitz, chairman of I.G. Farben; his company paid a publicity
man, Ivy Lee, to write pro-I.G. Farben and pro-Nazi propaganda and get it into the U.S. press.
Now that he was outside of Texas, Farish found hifamily. He hired Nazi German crews for Standard Oil tankers. And he hired Emil Helfferich,mself in the shipping business--like the Bush
chairman of the Walker/Bush/Harriman Hamburg-Amerika Line, as chairman also of the Standard
Oil Company subsidiary in Germany. Karl Lindemann, board member of Hamburg-Amerika, also
became a top Farish-Standard executive in Germany.@s1@s4