German Nazis, led by Hitler, promoted a species improvement program called "racial hygiene," which required extermination of populations that the Nazis regarded as inferior. This atrocious program was an example of

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Negative eugenics involves the elimination of populations deemed inferior or undesirable. The Nazi program of exterminating individuals whom they considered inferior fits into this category of eugenics. Positive eugenics, on the other hand, aims to improve the genetic composition of populations through selective breeding or other interventions. Gene replacement therapy and germline gene therapy are modern genetic technologies that aim to replace or modify genes to treat genetic disorders, and are not related to eugenics.

German Nazis, Led by Hitler, Promoted a Species Improvement Program