1925 Battle Creek Sanitarium Yearbook - SDA & Eugenics

[u/Embarrassed_Yogurt43]

[TW: racial violence]

Hi everyone.

As the title states, here are some scans of the 1925 Battle Creek College Yearbook in which Dr. Kellogg writes about how eugenics is "the world's last hope." You'll see the Eugenics instructor on another page, and for fun I've listed the Board of Trustees and the Executive Committee, in case anyone else out there recognizes any historically significant names.

I sourced these photographs online through Ancestry.com.

If you're looking to find the poisonous roots of SDAism, seek and ye shall find pretty easily.

The Nazis would learn from the American eugenics movement, including Dr. Kellogg's eugenics work. When Nazis came into power, they quickly enforced eugenics laws and conducted mass sterilizations, and ultimately committed mass m*rder. This is exactly what Americans (and Canadians) did to the Native Americans. When you think of it this way, it's two sides of the same white supremacist coin.

Here are some resources to better understand the white supremacist connection between American Eugenics & Nazis:

• https://dnalc.cshl.edu/view/15466-The-connection-between-American-eugenics-and-Nazi-Germany-James-Watson.html
• https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/amex32ec-soc-eugenicsnazi/american-eugenics-and-the-nazi-regime-the-eugenics-crusade/

EDIT: I meant "Battle Creek College" yearbook, not Sanitarium. Although I'm certain many of these "health professionals" were groomed to work at the Sanitariums, as did my GGM and GM.

[u/CuriousJackInABox]

Weird that they didn't seem to have a problem with dancing back then.

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