Not to mention that it's highly misleading. Author is just hoping people will think "oh Nazi's wanted to be thin, well if the Nazis did it, it must be bad". Play the Nazi card, that'll shut em up.  Five minutes of research and you learn that eugenics was a widely accepted idea at the time, and the US was at the forefront of it. Over 60,000 Americans were forcibly sterilized under eugenics programs in the US. Even friendly Canada sterilized thousands (mostly natives)