The Nazi connection: eugenics, American racism, and German national socialism

When Hitler published Mein Kampf in 1924, he held up a foreign law as a model for his program of racial purification: null U.S. Immigration Restriction Act of 1924, which prohibited the immigration of those with hereditary illnesses and entire ethnic groups. When the Nazis null power in 1933, they installed a program of eugenics-the attempted improvement of the population through forced sterilization and marriage controls-that consciously drew...