books.google.ca - When Hitler published Mein Kampf in 1924, he held up a foreign law as a model for his program of racial purification: The U.S. Immigration Restriction Act of 1924, which prohibited the immigration of those with hereditary illnesses and entire ethnic groups. When the Nazis took power in 1933, they installed...http://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Nazi_Connection_Eugenics_American_Ra.html?id=UGYfRv3DWuQC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism