Thus, the immigration laws eugenicists inspired and influenced had a direct influence on the death of millions of Europeans. As Stephen Gould (1996, 262) has stated: “The eugenicists battled and won one of the greatest victories of scientific racism in American history.” One could add that they aided and abetted one of the greatest tragedies in world history. Nash (1999, 155) summarizes: “Hitler had done exactly what Madison Grant had suggested: a eugenics program to sterilize ‘defectives’ followed by the extermination of ‘inferior’ peoples.”
