once eugenics became established in the United States, the campaign migrated to Germany. While Hitler 's anti-Semitism “sprung from his own mind”, the basis of the eugenics Hitler adopted, originated in America. He tried to legitimize his hatred by “wrapping it in the more palatable pseudoscientific facade of eugenics” (Black). By claiming that science was on his side, Hitler enlisted more followers among reasonable Germans. Eugenicists claimed that the ideal human was the blond, blue-eyed Nordic types. According to Black, this group alone, they believed, was fit to inherit the earth. In the process, the movement intended to remove “emancipated Negroes, immigrant Asian laborers, Indians, Hispanics, East Europeans, Jews, dark-haired hill folk,