The 'science' of perfect babies started with polite dinner parties and ended in Auschwitz.
The documentary depicts the birth of eugenics - a pseudo-science created in the 19th century that propounded the theory of perfecting the human race. According to the views of eugenicists, only healthy and creative individuals should reproduce. The film shows how these controversial ideas influenced the intellectual and political elite of the West in the 20th century, including the dictator of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler. Eugenics is a pseudoscience created in the 19th century and treating the improvement of the human race. According to eugenicists, only healthy and creative individuals could procreate, and the procreation of the sick or disabled and racially unworthy (prostitutes, the poor, beggars) should be forbidden. The author of the film posits that modern genetics, the killing of unborn children and euthanasia have their roots in this infamous pseudoscience.
Direction
Braun's archival excavation builds devastating historical momentum.
Editing
Juxtaposition of genteel academics and their genocidal legacy.
Director
Grzegorz Braun
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Grzegorz Braun is a Polish far-right politician; this context fuels debate about whether the film is genuine historical reckoning or ideological weaponization against modern bioethics.
The documentary's most chilling revelation: eugenics was mainstream science, taught at Harvard and Yale, with the US pioneering forced sterilization laws that Nazi lawyers studied as models.
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