We had business interests there, yeah. No one likes to talk about American 'heroes' who supported the Nazis, either--Charles Lindbergh, Henry Ford, etc.
I'm sure it also helped that, as the Germans had already shown, mobilizing for war on a large scale helps get countries out of the throes of a deep depression.
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I'm sure it also helped that, as the Germans had already shown, mobilizing for war on a large scale helps get countries out of the throes of a deep depression.
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It wasn't only Nazi Germany that endorsed Eugenic theories between the wars- it was, frighteningly, a commonplace throughout the 'developed' world.