Стенограмма Нюрнбергского процесса. Том XVIII.
ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIFTH DAY
Wednesday, 10 July 1946
DR. THOMA: … Rosenberg's opinions in regard to the race question were the result of racial research of international scientists. Rosenberg repeatedly asserts (I refer again to the opinion stated in Document Book 1, Volume 11) that the purpose of his racial political demands was not contempt of race, but respect for it. I quote Page 70:
"The leading moral idea of an approach to world history based on the laws of heredity belongs to our times and to our generation, being in full accord with the true spirit of the modern eugenics movement with regard to patriotism, that is, the upholding and expansion of the spiritually, morally, intellectually, and physically best hereditary forces for our fatherland: only in this way can we preserve our institutions for all future times."
These words embody the main theme of his demands, though their originator was not Rosenberg, but Henry Fairfield Osborn, Professor at Columbia University, who wrote them in discussion of the book by his colleague in science, Madison Grant, The Decline of the Great Race. This research, long before the existence of the Third Reich, led to eugenic legislation in other countries, in particular to the American Immigration Law of 26 May 1924, which was aimed at a strong reduction of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe while favoring those from the north and west of Europe.
Wednesday, 10 July 1946
DR. THOMA: … Rosenberg's opinions in regard to the race question were the result of racial research of international scientists. Rosenberg repeatedly asserts (I refer again to the opinion stated in Document Book 1, Volume 11) that the purpose of his racial political demands was not contempt of race, but respect for it. I quote Page 70:
"The leading moral idea of an approach to world history based on the laws of heredity belongs to our times and to our generation, being in full accord with the true spirit of the modern eugenics movement with regard to patriotism, that is, the upholding and expansion of the spiritually, morally, intellectually, and physically best hereditary forces for our fatherland: only in this way can we preserve our institutions for all future times."
These words embody the main theme of his demands, though their originator was not Rosenberg, but Henry Fairfield Osborn, Professor at Columbia University, who wrote them in discussion of the book by his colleague in science, Madison Grant, The Decline of the Great Race. This research, long before the existence of the Third Reich, led to eugenic legislation in other countries, in particular to the American Immigration Law of 26 May 1924, which was aimed at a strong reduction of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe while favoring those from the north and west of Europe.