But the concept of a white, blond-haired, blue-eyed master Nordic race didn’t originate with Hitler. The idea was created in North America, and cultivated in California, decades before Hitler came to power. California eugenicists played an important, although little-known, role in the American Eugenics movement’s campaign for ethnic cleansing.
But the concept of a white, blond-haired, blue-eyed master Nordic race didn’t originate with Hitler. The idea was created in North America, and cultivated in California, decades before Hitler came to power. California eugenicists played an important, although little-known, role in the American Eugenics movement’s campaign for ethnic cleansing.