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Friendly reminder that the United States served as the basis for Nazi Germany!
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Anonymous 1w

Hitler took some inspiration from the United States— Jim Crow and Indian boarding schools in particular— but there were also other factors involved, particularly the millennia-long history of antisemitism in Europe and the backlash to Jewish Emancipation, the industrialization of the genocide, the complicity of other governments. I totally get the intention behind pointing this out especially right now, but the rest of that history matters too— please try not to erase it if you can

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Anonymous 1w

No they didn't. That is ridiculous

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Anonymous 1w

Hitler also took inspiration from soviet gulags

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

Hitler admired how America “gunned down the millions of Redskins to a few hundred thousand, and now keep the modest remnant under observation in a cage”. That is a direct quote. I am not ridiculous, you are just uneducated. This is not the mention how the Nazis called the Jim Crow south too racist for their taste.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

An offhand admiring reference or two doesn't justify what you said.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

The anti-miscegenation a.k.a. the drop of blood laws are directly pulled from the American south you fucking donkey.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 1w

https://berlinexperiences.com/how-did-the-nazi-concentration-camps-differ-from-the-soviet-gulag/

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1w

Bruh how am I erasing history by calling attention to it?

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

you said the US was “the basis” for Nazi Germany, implying there were no other major factors. i am just saying there were many other factors and we can point out the inspiration he took from the US without erasing or minimizing all the other factors

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

Forced sterilization of disabled people in the U.S. -> Eugenics movement -> Nazi Germany continues such practices -> After WW2 this falls out of favor in the U.S. because of Germany

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1w

The structural design of the concentration camps were built off of American infrastructure and systemic racism. While there are obviously more factors at play, I was more arguing that America is implicated in the planning of Nazi Germany. This is something that others are actively denying.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

the structural design of the concentration camps was actually one of the more unique features of the holocaust. and that argument is legitimate and i agree, i’m just asking that you please make it without implying that was the sole factor

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