Earnest Hooton

Earnest Albert Hooton (20. november 1887 - 3. mai 1954) var en amerikansk fysisk antropolog.

Hooton-planen

I 1943, Hooton hadde en artikkel med tittelen "Breed War Strain Out of Germans" publisert i den venstreorienterte avisen PM i New York. I sin artikkel foreslo Hooton fire tiltak:

1. Execute or imprison for life all leaders of the Nazi party; permanently exile all professional army officers.

2. For a period of 20 years or more utilise the bulk of the present German army as rehabilitation labour units in devastated areas of the Allied Nations in Europe and elsewhere. These labourers should not be treated as prisoners of war or convicts but as paid employees (supervised and restricted as to movement from the area of their work). They might be allowed the privilege of naturalisation upon evidence of good behaviour. The single men should be permitted to marry only women of the country of their abode or naturalisation.

The families of the men already married should remain in Germany for a period of years, but might eventually be permitted to join the fathers. The latter should not be allowed to return to Germany. The objects of this measure include reduction of the birth rate of “pure” Germans, neutralisation of German aggressiveness by outbreeding, and denationalisation of indoctrinated individuals.

3. Break up the German Reich into several states (probably its original component states), permitting each, after a suitable interval of supervision and government by the Allied Nations, to choose its own form of non-Fascist government. The object of this measure is to destroy the national framework of unified German aggression.

4. During the period of supervision and occupation of the several states by armies and civilian staffs of the Allied Nations, encourage members of these groups to intermarry with the German women and to settle there permanently. During this period encourage also the immigration and settlement in the German states of non-German nationals, especially males.