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After the Holocaust and WWII, many in the West sought to disassociate the horrors of Nazi racial policies from their own past. While evolutions in moral sensibilities led to the official rejection of eugenics, the ideological roots persisted in academia and policy in subtle ways.
Interestingly, figures like Wilson—who supported eugenic legislation as governor and president—are often implicitly sanitized or omitted from mainstream biographies, particularly regarding their connections to eugenics and the racial policies enacted under their administration. The figure of Kats and Ellen Bogan remains memory-holed—rarely acknowledged in histories of Wilson or American progressivism—yet his story exemplifies how eugenic ideology was embedded in American scientific and political institutions.