Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law by James Q. Whitman

Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law

James Q. Whitman

224 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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How American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi GermanyNazism 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 y...

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