The Ungemach Experiment, a Story of Eugenics

2021

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Overview

In 1924, a garden city, called “Ungemach”, was inaugurated in Strasbourg; it was restricted to couples who bore “healthy and fertile strains”. This officially eugenicist experience was endorsed by both political and scientific authorities, and the selection system lasted until the 1980s! To understand the genesis of such a project, it is necessary to revisit the history of eugenics. We will first go to England, where the concept was born and developed in the 1880s. Then to the United States, Switzerland, the Nordic countries, Japan, where, since the 1920s, large-scale sterilization policies have been implemented to eradicate health and social "defects", long before Nazi Germany. This question of eugenics is a universal one; its implementations were numerous and it still permeates ethical debates on medically assisted procreation techniques or Transhumanism today.

Status: Released

Language: FR

Production Information

Production Companies

France Télévisions Look at Sciences Sancho & Compagnie Histoire TV

Production Countries

France

Spoken Languages

French

Quick Facts

Original Title	L'expérience Ungemach, une histoire de l'eugénisme
Release Date	December 19, 2021
Status	Released
Language	FR

Cast

Key Crew

Vincent Gaullier

Writer

Jean-Jacques Lonni

Writer

Vincent Gaullier

Director

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