since nazi germany is trending bc someone suggested the US is as bad if not worse than it, here's a reminder that the nazis studied and were inspired by US jim crow laws, but even they thought it was too harsh

the US also was the first to use zyklon b to gas immigrants on the US-mexico border, which the nazis picked up on. the excerpts are from this great piece: https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/18/a-short-history-of-zyklon-b-on-the-us-mexican-border-please-dont-share-with-donald-trump/

one of the inspirations of the nazi policy of "lebensraum" was the white supremacist ideology of "manifest destiny", and hitler also greatly admired and was inspired by both the american and british genocide and imperial domination over indigenous peoples

note that I've not rendered any judgment on whether nazi germany was as bad as the US. it's an inane question. obviously it presented a much greater threat, but the point is that they were inspired by and sought to emulate elements of US white supremacist and imperialist ideology

some more resources on this: the article the excerpt in the original tweet is from https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/04/adam-serwer-madison-grant-white-nationalism/583258/

the book being quoted from, whitman's "hitler's american model": https://www.law.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/upload_documents/Hitler%27s%20American%20Model%20for%20NYU.pdf

and stefan kuhl's excellent "the nazi connection" https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-nazi-connection-9780195149784?cc=gb&lang=en&