Word: militancy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Preventing idiots and feeble-minded from breeding (although not necessarily by the German method of destroying them) is a principle which most U.S. psychiatrists accept. But few doctors would swallow the Nazi definition of "unfit" or "psychopath." In a 1938 issue of the official Militärarzt (Army Doctor), German physicians were warned against "the most dangerous . . . element, the left psychopathic wing . . . those who . . . promote incitement and rebellion . . . those who, not lacking in intelligence . . . gather about themselves the discontented"-a description which in Germany applies rather better to democrats than to radicals...
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