A noted author claims in a new report that while Adolph Hitler is universally blamed for his Nazi objective of killing millions to create a “blue-eyed, blonde hair master Aryan race,” the concept was actually born in the United States decades before he came to power.

Edwin Black, author of “IBM and the Holocaust,” and, “War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race,” writes that “California eugenicists played an important, although little known, role in the American eugenics movement’s campaign for ethnic cleansing.”