I came across a book Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law that has some interesting reviews.
Here is one from OSU.
In this book, Whitman examines not only the development of the Nazis’ Nuremburg Laws, but demonstrates that Nazi lawmakers used the miscegenation and segregation regimes, especially those of the US South, as models for these infamous laws. Rather than claiming that the Nazis simply copied the United States’ segregation laws and exclusionary policies, Whitman argues that the Nazis borrowed the ideas behind the laws in order to create a German version of them which would be accepted in the anti-Semitic atmosphere of the Fatherland.
Whitman’s monograph challenges historians like Richard Bernstein, Jens-Uwe Guettel, and Mark Mazower who have argued that the creators of the Nuremberg Laws and the Nazi blood laws viewed America as only one of many countries with racist legislation, and that there was, therefore, no direct connection between the Nazi laws and the United States. Instead, as Whitman demonstrates, the Nazis looked to the United States with unbridled admiration for the way in which the latter kept “bloodlines pure.” “Nazi lawyers regarded America,” Whitman writes, “as the innovative world leader in the creation of racist law” (p. 5). This argument revolutionizes the discussion of comparative racism and our understanding of the influence of the United States upon the Third Reich.
Princeton University Press had this to say:
Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. In Hitler’s American Model, James Whitman presents a detailed investigation of the American impact on the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi regime. Contrary to those who have insisted that there was no meaningful connection between American and German racial repression, Whitman demonstrates that the Nazis took a real, sustained, significant, and revealing interest in American race policies.
As Whitman shows, the Nuremberg Laws were crafted in an atmosphere of considerable attention to the precedents American race laws had to offer. German praise for American practices, already found in Hitler’s Mein Kampf, was continuous throughout the early 1930s, and the most radical Nazi lawyers were eager advocates of the use of American models. But while Jim Crow segregation was one aspect of American law that appealed to Nazi radicals, it was not the most consequential one. Rather, both American citizenship and antimiscegenation laws proved directly relevant to the two principal Nuremberg Laws—the Citizenship Law and the Blood Law. Whitman looks at the ultimate, ugly irony that when Nazis rejected American practices, it was sometimes not because they found them too enlightened, but too harsh.
One unfortunate note here is that the laws were Democrat in origin. In 1926 the Klan was 3 million strong and about 50,000 marched on Washington. President and Democrat Woodrow Wilson instituted Federal Jim Crow laws that didn’t get repealed until the 60s.
So yeah. Nazis are right wing. Totally.
But I have to hand it to the Democrats. Today they are singing a much different tune.
Racism is bad and so are white people – The New Democrats.
So in the 1920s Progressives didn’t like Black people. Now they don’t like white people. We have come a long way baby. But maybe not so far after all.
If you like Alex Jones you can watch a video that includes a discussion of the book with author and video maker Dinesh D’Souza.
And what do you think attacking people because of their race will do? What it always does. Cause them to band together. The Jews even have a holiday to celebrate their oppression. And one theme of the holiday? Oppression keeps us together. Look up – Purim drinking game – for details.
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8 responses to “Hitler’s American Model”
Well, between De Fuhrer’s respect for Jim Crow and Woodrow Wilson’s Progressive agenda and the mutual love affair between FDR, his New Dealers, and Mussolini’s Fascista, The Dems in America could have made a complete sweep of loving the Axis countries. Heck, 2 outta 3 ain’t bad, so the song tells us. If it just weren’t for those darn, inferior, Japanese!
The last line is sarcasm. The rest is apparently historical record. I mean, who could forget Cole Porter’s Paean to Mussolini in “You’re the Top”?
democrats won their battle with racist dixiecrats who are now republicans. 1964 gop trades lincoln for strom thurmond! fighting racism has cost democrats the majority of white votes since 1968. in 1944 german pow’s were dancing with white women being guarded by american negro soldiers who would have been lynched if they tried to dance with a white woman. their motto double V for victory over nazism and racism. D’souza and the black conservative uncle toms salerys are paid by white conservatives who need blacks to tom for them. at least omerosa understood her bargain with the devil and had the tape recorder going! when I was in the south for some reason the ignorant southern white trash didn’t like my bumper sticker : your right you should never for get that you LOST! I myself am southern white trash ;but not ignorant!
“You’re the Top” Video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rInfgR_gp1k
http://www.strangehistory.net/2015/10/23/mussolini-and-cole-porter/
The Dixiecrats never became Republicans. You might want to look up the history of Robert Byrd as an example.
https://newstalk1130.iheart.com/featured/common-sense-central/content/2018-05-01-the-myth-of-the-republican-democrat-switch/
A total of 21 Democrats in the Senate opposed the Civil Rights Act. Only one of them, “Dixiecrat” Strom Thurmond, ever became a Republican. The rest, including Al Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd–a former Exalted Cyclops in the Ku Klux Klan–remained Democrats until the day they died.
Moreover, as those 20 lifelong Democrats retired, their Senate seats remained in Democrat hands for several decades afterwards. So too did the overwhelming majority of the House seats in the South until 1994, when a Republican wave election swept the GOP into control of the House for the first time since 1952. 1994 was also the first time Republicans ever held a majority of House seats in the South–a full 30 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act.
From there, Republicans gradually built their support in the South until two more wave elections in 2010 and 2014 gave them the overwhelming majorities they enjoy today.
If this was a sudden “switch” to the Republican Party for the old Democrat segregationists, it sure took a long time to happen.
So how does that explain Nixon 49 States?
The socialism ( and the drug menace and dirty hippies ) of the left so revolted a majority of Americans that they voted for Nixon.
I believe socialism ( and a strong economy ) will be your downfall come November.
I can write the campaign ads.
“A video and audio of a major Democrat calling for the abolition of ICE. Followed by a protester with a No Borders sign. And then a voice – ‘do you want these people in charge of Congress? Vote John Doe – Republican’.
Democrats are not too smart.
Clinton was stealth. And thus not too effective – but he moved things left some. Obama was more overt. His executive orders are being countermanded as desired. But he was a smooth operator.
Bernie? Very Popular. But obviously very socialist. If Trump legalizes weed in the second half of his term Bernie loses 10% of his following. If Trump gets an “addiction is a disease” bill passed he will be a God to anti-Prohibitionists.
Addiction is a medical problem – Trump
http://classicalvalues.com/2018/05/trump-and-congress-have-an-addiction-plan/
And on cannabis would you believe that Sen “Indian” Warren and Sen Gardner (R-CO) have introduced a bill? With Trump’s approval.
http://classicalvalues.com/2018/06/federal-pot-legalization-bill-introduced/
I was around back then simon. tricky dick came out with phony vietnam war peace announcement. there were morons back then who thought democrats were commie soc. just as they thought hilary clinton and obama were too! mcgovern lost because democrats voted for nixon for many reasons with racism, vietnam war ambivalence dislike of liberal anti-war activist far more then thinking mcgovern was going to lead ameriKKKa into a communist revolution and soc. industry. dream on!
simon their are some dixicrats to this day who never registered as republican ;but thats who they vote for. I remember in 1964 creditenials battle at democrat convention between black freedom democrats and white racist democrat to seat mississippi delegation and the cheers that went up when black mississippi delegate for civil rights agenda. so it took a while big deal. their votes didn’t take long at all.
tricky dick did not win 49 states by running on privatizing social security. (it cost bushit in 2006 when he tried!) or telling the voters I will free you from the tyranny of medicare and medicade so vote for me. even reagan had to back off getting rid of medicare and medicade and instead have bill casey commit treason with iran to hold our hostages till after the 1980 election so he could win. remember iran-contra? voters in 1972 were not voting on doing away with government social programs!