https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1299061/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1299061/ American and German eugenicists were in close conta

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1299061/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1299061/ American and German eugenicists were in close contact with each other, especially after World War I: they were working together in international organizations, following and even reporting on developments in eugenics in each other's countries. The Germans did, in fact, borrow much of their 1933 Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Defective Offspring (the so-called 'sterilization law') from the model sterilization law drawn up for the various states by Harry H. Laughlin, Superintendent of the ERO, and a number of American eugenicists were impressed with the Nazi eugenical laws after 1933.