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without any sort of concrete evidence that the national socialists were actively modeling their policies after US policy, I have no reason to believe this eithe
by ouid 9y ago
without any sort of concrete evidence that the national socialists were actively modeling their policies after US policy, I have no reason to believe this either. Two countries can have backwards policies without one having been "inspiration" for the other.
- folk_kilobyte 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_eugenics#Origins_in_the_U.S._eugenics_movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_eugenics#Origins_in_the_U... http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Eugenics-and-the-Nazis-the-California-2549771.php http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Eugenics-and-the-Nazis... > During the '20s, Carnegie Institution eugenic scientists cultivated deep personal and professional relationships with Germany's fascist eugenicists. In "Mein Kampf," published in 1924, Hitler quoted American eugenic ideology and openly displayed a thorough knowledge of American eugenics. "There is today one state," wrote Hitler, "in which at least weak beginnings toward a better conception (of immigration) are noticeable. Of course, it is not our model German Republic, but the United States." > Hitler proudly told his comrades just how closely he followed the progress of the American eugenics movement. "I have studied with great interest," he told a fellow Nazi, "the laws of several American states concerning prevention of reproduction by people whose progeny would, in all probability, be of no value or be injurious to the racial stock." > Hitler even wrote a fan letter to American eugenics leader Madison Grant, calling his race-based eugenics book, "The Passing of the Great Race," his "bible."
- ouid 9y agoThank you for this!