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The pope may not have been, but several german priests such as Herman Muckermann certainly gave german Catholics a way to support eugenics and race theories.

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Some priests did, but overall the Catholic Church was very against eugenics.[1] On the other hand eugenics was quite popular among US intellectuals.[2] Forced sterilization of the mentally disabled is still legal in the US.[3] Herman Muckermann was at one point in favor of forced sterilization, but turned against it when the pope denounced it. Herman Muckermann was also against Nazism and euthanasia.

>In 1933, he left his post at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, as he opposed Nazi biological racism and the belief that the Nordic race was superior (Dietrich, 1992).[4]

[1] https://academic.oup.com/jah/article-abstract/103/2/498/1750...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterilization_law_in_the_Unite...

[4] https://eugenicsarchive.ca/discover/tree/5233675d5c2ec500000...

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