produce an Aryan super-race to spearhead the coming world conquest by the Third Reich. Human stud-farms were set up during the 1930s in an attempt to breed from a few thousand suitable specimens the nucleus of a master nation. Hand in glove with this, a policy of imposed sterilization was introduced which led to at least two million people being forcibly sterilized.33 Galton’s ideas, driven by the doctrine of evolution, were carried on with devastating effect by the German biologist Ernst Haeckel,