Comment on History never repeats itself but it rhymes

gencha@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• flango@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Nop, it just smells like you are wrong.

  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.

  Reference: press.princeton.edu/…/hitlers-american-model

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• Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  leftists being so left they’re right

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