Upon return from a trip to Germany 1934 , which at the time was sterilizing over 5,000 citizens per month , Goethe reportedly told a fellow eugenicist , " 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 . " The Nazi eugenics movement eventually escalated to become The Holocaust , which claimed the lives of well over 10 million ' undesirables ' , including 6 million Jews
The Holocaust
The Holocaust
Charles Goethe