NAZI BREEDING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 230, 28 September 1935, Page 16

NAZI BREEDING.

SUGGESTED MATING RULES. GUIDANCE FROM ANIMALS. BERLIN, August 22. Belief was expressed by Walter Darre ( Minister of Agriculture, in a book published to-day that the office of every German marriage clerk should have a superintendent of breeding attached to it. '• In his volume, "The New Nobility of Blood and the Soil," Darre demanded the appointment of superintendents or guardians of breeding to make sure that all marriages shall be eugenically above reproach. w "Nobody need feel shocked," he said, "if we evoke experiences in breeding animals for our guidance in this matter. Certainly human dignity is not offended if animal breeding and human breeding as compared with each other." Urges Four Marriage Classes. Darre urged that candidates for marriage be divided into four classes: — 1. A class consisting of only 10 per cent of the girls who are pronounced lit | for marriage each year, made up of maidens whose marriage in every respect seems desirable and hence should be given every assistance. 2. A-class, which Darre believes will be by far the largest, composed of girls to whose marriage there is fundamentally no objection from the viewpoint of possible offspring. 3. A class to be comprised of girls who morally and legally are fit to marry, but whose hereditary predisposition indicates they should have no children. Their marriage' is to be permitted; only if guarantees can be giveri they will have no children. 4. A class to be composed of girls against whose marriage there are fundamental objections. They must be forbidden to wed. Discussing illegitimate children, Darre said: "From the viewpoint of improvement of the race, the ..first consideration is that oi hereditary value, that is, origin, and only in the. second place does there enter the question of legitimacy or illegitimacy."