[shadowgovt]

> I don't think eugenics by means of killing people was ever widely considered moral or even a gray area.

Oof, how I wish that were true. You may be interested in Pernick, Martin (1999): The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of "Defective" Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures since 1915.

Several nations (the US included) were well on their way to "Great Society" ideas of shaping the next generation by controlling genetics (be that in who reproduced or who was allowed to live). A lot of experiments ended abruptly when the Allies reached the camps, and a lot of politically-powerful institutions have kicked dirt over their own pasts to try and help people forget that's where we were headed.

(Quite a few experiments did not; forced sterilization wasn't outlawed in the US until, IIRC, the eighties).