The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism

by Stefan Kühl

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195149785
• ISBN13: 9780195149784
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Interesting Book

This is a valuable book that explores the role of American intellectual and psuedo-scientific policies and how the played an important role in the maturation of Nazi Germany. A must read.