CNN CNN Special Program June 4, 2024 00:18:00
Your race and national origin. >> reporter: the goal, use science to weed out those deemed unfit. >> they weren't beating around the bush. they weren't speaking in code. they said it very straightforwardly. we want to basically freeze the racial/ethnic composition of the united states. >> ewe generalists believed that the new immigrants were physically and mentally defective. >> the more jews you let in, the more italians, they're more likely to commit crimes, they're more likely to be mentally insane or ill. >> reporter: if it sounds like nazi germany, adolf hitler embraced american eugenics....