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Alfred Ploetz was a German physician, biologist, Social Darwinist, and eugenicist known for coining the term racial hygiene (Rassenhygiene), a form of eugenics, and for promoting the concept in Germany.
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![This poster (from around 1938) reads: "60,000 ℛ︁ℳ︁ is what this person suffering from a hereditary defect costs the People's community during his lifetime. Fellow citizen, that is your money too. Read '[A] New People', the monthly magazine of the Bureau for Race Politics of the NSDAP."](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/EuthanasiePropaganda.jpg/330px-EuthanasiePropaganda.jpg)
Scientists born in the 1860s 6
About this person
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1860 to 1940 · aged 79
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