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After Galton's death, the leadership of the eugenics move-
ment passed to America. Henry Goddard, Henry Fairfield
Osborn, Harry Laughlin and Madison Grant were just a few of
Galton's American heirs.
The Rockefeller Institute and the Carnegie Foundation
headed the list of the supporters of eugenics in the USA. The
Rockefeller Institute financed the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, one
of the leaders of the eugenics movement in Germany, and in the
1920s, had a special building constructed for the genetic
research of Professor Ernst Rüdin, who was obsessed by the idea
of racial hygiene. The Mental Hygiene Movement was largely
supported by the Rockefeller Institute. Moreover, the Nobel

The University of
Heidelberg ho-
nored H. Laugh-
lin, a prominent
eugenist, for his
work on "the sci-
ence of racial
hygiene." This
newspaper cut-
ting carries the
report in ques-
tion.

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