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Here's an example of someone, in this case, @ggreenwald, using the term "Nazi like" to describe United States policy on the Mexican border.

The term is often used to describe policies of the countries who fought the Nazis. Let's see what "Nazi like" really means

Romania's Iron Guard are a good point of comparison.

In 1941 while the Nazis & Romanians were invading Russia Romanian dictator Antonescu gave an order to start cleansing the Romanian city Iasi of its Jewish populace

Read what happened next below

In Lithuania ultra nationalists acted "Nazi like" soon after the Nazis invaded the USSR

The killer in the story below was Algirdą Antaną Pavalkį. Later, Pavalkį served in the Gestapo then became a Soviet agent.

He became a doctor after the war.

In the city of Kovno Lithuanians, acting "like Nazis" snatched Jews from the streets and murdered them.

It's worth saying @ggreenwald wasn't talking about the behaviour of soldiers or militias he used the term "Nazi-like concentration camps".

An example of a "Nazi like concentration camp" might be Jasenovac in Croatia.

500,000 people were murdered there.

It was a Nazi camp but many staff were Croats.

Here's an eyewitness account of what went on there. This is not what goes on in US detention centres on the Mexican border.

You might think bestselling author & Pulitzer Prize winning journalist @ggreenwald would know that already

I don't think that claiming US policies are Nazi like, when they clearly aren't, brings anything to the argument.

I do think it demeans the suffering & death of millions of innocent people both now and then.

Also read this book by @chalemedia: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0078XH8SE/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_d_asin_title_o06?ie=UTF8&psc=1