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BekindtoAnimals22 · 03-02-2014, 08:21 AM

There was a strong Progressive movement in the early to mid 20th century in the US. They engaged in eugenics here and this is where Hitler got his ideas about the Aryan society. Hitler admired the US Progressives and Hitler was admired by the US for his success in turning the German economy around at least until he decided to engage in aggressive imperialism.

"After the eugenics movement was well established in the United States, it was spread to Germany. California eugenicists began producing literature promoting eugenics and sterilization and sending it overseas to German scientists and medical professionals.[4] 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.[5]

The Rockefeller Foundation helped develop and fund various German eugenics programs, including the one that Josef Mengele worked in before he went to Auschwitz.[4][6]

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."[7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_eugenics

This has a lot to do with the acceptance of Darwin's theories. Any form of collectivism which requires a very strong central government has little regard for individuals on any level. Its all based on what is good for the "state" in the end even though the original appeal is a better life for "all".