Margaret Sanger

While recently touring the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC with my wife I noticed in the "Nazi book burning" exhibit that a book by Margaret Sanger was burned at one of the Hitler Youth book burning bonfires. Unfortunately the exhibit did not mention the title of the book which was burned so here is a list of Ms. Sanger's books since this "unknown" intrigued me:

The Pivot of Civilization
Woman and the New Race c.1920
What Every Girl Should Know (1920 ed.) (GIF facsimile available)
What Every Girl Should Know (1922 ed.) (GIF and PDF facsimiles available)
"The Case for Birth Control" (first published in the Woman Citizen, February 23, 1924)
Correspondence between Sanger and Katharine McCormick
Works by Margaret Sanger at Project Gutenberg
The Margaret Sanger Papers at Smith College


Margaret Sanger? The same Margaret Sanger -- founder of Planned Parenthood -- who shared the Nazis' hate for the "inferior races" ? Background on Ms. Sanger's racist views and promotion of eugenics are noted here:

http://www.nrlc.org/bal/sanger.html

I just had to wonder -- since Sanger and the Nazis were both focused on the extermination of the "inferior races" why would a book written by Sanger be burned by the Nazis? Well either Ms. Sanger's views were too moderate for the Nazis and/or clearly NO one is safe from the book burners of the world.

If any readers out there care to defend Ms. Sanger's work I would love to hear from you. Given the popularity of black Americans like -- Oprah, Michael Jordan, and Tony Dungy -- aren't we glad that people like Ms. Sanger did not achieve all of their personal objectives?

Live and let live,

Todd