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Hitler's American Model - The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law (Hardcover)
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Hitler's American Model - The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law (Hardcover)
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How American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi Germany 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. Indelibly linking American race laws to the shaping of Nazi
policies in Germany, Hitler's American Model upends understandings
of America's influence on racist practices in the wider world.
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