They modeled their policies after ours.
A meeting Harry Laughlin and Charles Davenport met with the American Breeders Association in 1909 to embark on a project to breed humans the way farmers bred animals. Thus began the US eugenics movement in pursuit of the American "nordic superior race." Harry Laughlin worked to develop legislation and policies in the US which were adopted in Germany.....
The Reichstag of Nazi Germany passed the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring in 1933, closely based on Laughlin's model. Between 35,000 and 80,000 persons were sterilized in the first full year alone. (It is now known that over 350,000 persons were sterilized). Laughlin was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Heidelberg in 1936 for his work behalf of the “science of racial cleansing.” (Five other Americans received honorary degrees the same year). However, reports about the extensive use of compulsory sterilization in Germany began to appear in US newspapers. By the end of the decade, eugenics had become associated with Nazism and poor science. Support for groups like the American Eugenics Society began to fade. In 1935, a review panel convened by the Carnegie Institute concluded that the ERO's research did not have scientific merit. By 1939, the Institute withdrew funding for the ERO, and the office was forced to close.
We didn't know how extensively the Jewish people were targeted but they knew that he was perfecting his methods with disabled people as targets. It's not a stretch to consider that it would have gone much further here if not for the worldwide horror
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_H._Laughlin
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