Posted on 11/23/2025 5:58:59 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
On 5 June 1934, about a year and half after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of the Reich, the leading lawyers of Nazi Germany gathered at a meeting to plan what would become the Nuremberg Laws…
That transcript reveals a startling fact: the meeting involved lengthy discussions of the laws of the United States of America.
At its very opening, the Minister of Justice presented a memorandum on US race law and, as the meeting progressed, the participants turned to the US example repeatedly. They debated whether they should bring Jim Crow segregation to the Third Reich. They engaged in detailed discussion of the statutes from the 30 US states that criminalised racially mixed marriages. They reviewed how the various US states determined who counted as a ‘Negro’ or a ‘Mongol’, and weighed whether they should adopt US techniques in their own approach to determining who counted as a Jew. Throughout the meeting the most ardent supporters of the US model were the most radical Nazis in the room.
This story might seem incredible. Why would the Nazis have felt the need to take lessons in racism from anybody? Why, most especially, would they have looked to the US? Whatever its failings, after all, the US is the home of a great liberal and democratic tradition. Moreover, the Jews of the US – however many obstacles they might have confronted in the early 20th century – never faced state-sponsored persecution. And, in the end, Americans made immense sacrifices in the struggle to defeat Hitler.
Nevertheless the evidence is there, and we cannot read it out of either German or American history.
(Excerpt) Read more at aeon.co ...
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Not your call. Threads are full of people objecting to other people's comments, perspectives, views, etc.
Deal with it.
Whitman’s book can be found here:
This isn’t about Wannsee 1942 but a June 5 1934 meeting.
I just posted a link to Whitman’s book in this thread. Read and judge for yourself.
Okay then. You continue to be a whiny little girl.
I’ll continue to post facts.
Fair enough.
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Nonsense! Their inspiration was Cossack Pogrom Gangs, medieval laws requiring Jews to live in Ghettos, quotas on Jews in Universities, etc. These things had ZERO to do with racial segregation in the USA. Very different than racial segregation in the USA.
If Hitler really wanted to to go after blacks he would have invaded Africa instead of invading Russia. In fact, invading Africa was something he explicitly rejected in spite of being urged to do so by Mussolini and his own navy. Even Churchill had no problem returning former German colonies in Tanzania, Guinea and Namibia.
“Mass lynchings are indeed comparable to pogroms.”
As I quoted Thomas Sowell, there were 500 lynchings in the South from 1865 - 1950. That hardly compares to attempted genocide, by the hundreds of thousands, of different ethnicities in Europe.
I equated mass lynchings with pogroms. I never mentioned genocides, which is something else entirely.
Some pogroms even had zero deaths. For instance, nobody died in the Limerick Pogrom.
“I equated mass lynchings with pogroms.”
And most people would maintain that 500 lynchings spread over a 85 year period is not really “mass.” Chicago had 591 killings last year and I would assume they were mostly blacks murdering blacks.
You're still not paying attention to anything I've posted.
If you read the article on "mass lynchings" that I posted up thread, you'll see that "mass lynching" refers not to the number of lynchings, but to the number of people killed per lynching incident.
Often individuals were lynched. But sometimes groups of individuals were lynched all at once. The latter is comparable to a pogrom, in which groups were killed (but sometimes no one).
I already addressed that issue at #31.
I replied to you before reading the whole thread - like most people do. But read just the introduction to Whitman’s book, if you’re still in doubt as to the underlying topic.
Thanks for the link. I’ll check it out.
It’s not a matter of what you want or your opinion. It’s recorded facts. American laws were spoken about at length and the transcripts prove it.
The Nazis took notes from countries known for their racial tensions, and applied what they could and expanded upon some points, and left out what wouldn’t work for them. They studied US laws like the one-drop rule (which wouldn’t work as well when it came to Jewish or mixed Jewish people.) They also admired the interracial marriage ban, and were aware of Native Americans’ reservation situations as well.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t like that. It’s the truth.
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