0 the idea that a race of people can be kept pure by not allowing people who are considered inferior (= of less value) to have children:
The full horror of eugenics was realized in the 1934 German racial hygiene laws, which led to the enforced sterilization of more than 80,000 individuals.
It was part of the same bureaucratic labyrinth that included the departments of hereditary science and racial hygiene .
Looking back with unbridled condemnation on the beginnings of racial hygiene does not enlighten today's thoughtful man or woman in regard to how he or she might have responded at the time.
