So Was She a Nazi or Just a Megalomaniac?

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WHEN Marie Stopes sent a volume of her love poems to Adolf Hitler, accusations she was a Nazi sympathiser became inevitable.

She accompanied the copy of Love Songs For Young Lovers with a note: 'Dear Herr Hitler, Love is the greatest thing in the world: so will you accept from me these that you may allow the young people of your nation to have them?' Added to that damning evidence is not only her attendance at a Nazi congress on population science in Berlin in 1935, but also her repeated calls for compulsory sterilisation of the diseased, drunkards, or simply those of bad character. Such harsh action was essential for 'racial progress', she argued - and it was no coincidence that her birth control clinics clustered in poor areas, as she wanted the birth rate of the lower classes to be reduced.

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So Was She a Nazi or Just a Megalomaniac?

Even when she publicly attacked the Nazis, it was for unusual reasons. Hitler's en...

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