After the eugenics movement was well established
in the United States, it spread to Germany.
See also: Nazi eugenics
After the eugenics movement was well established in the United States, it spread to Germany. California eugenicists
began producing literature promoting eugenics and sterilization and
sending it overseas to German scientists and medical professionals.[65]
By 1933, California had subjected more people to forceful sterilization
than all other U.S. states combined. The forced sterilization program
engineered by the Nazis was partly inspired by California's.[7]The Rockefeller Foundation helped develop and fund various German eugenics programs,[73] including the one that Josef Mengele worked in before he went to Auschwitz.[6][74]
Upon returning from Germany in 1934, where more than 5,000 people per month were being forcibly sterilized, the California eugenics leader C. M. Goethe bragged to a colleague:
"You will be interested to know that your work has played a powerful part in shaping the opinions of the group of intellectuals who are behind Hitler in this epoch-making program. Everywhere I sensed that their opinions have been tremendously stimulated by American thought . . . I want you, my dear friend, to carry this thought with you for the rest of your life, that you have really jolted into action a great government of 60 million people."[75]Read More