Thus, from the early beginnings of Nazism in Germany through the atrocities carried out by Hitler and his followers, even to the end of World War II, many American eugenicists supported Hitler and Nazism intellectually, with moral (or we might say immoral), political, and financial support. After all, American eugenicists had essentially written Nazi ideology and policy. As Dr. Heinz Kürten, the Nazi physician in charge of training other doctors in Nazi medicine, pointed out in 1933, U.S. legislation was used as the model for the new Germany, and the “American pathfinders” were Madison Grant
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