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**How American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi Germany** Nazism 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 yes. In __Hitler's American Model__, James Whitman presents a detailed investigation of the American impact on the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi regime. Contrary to those who have insisted that there was no meaningful connection between American and German racial repression, Whitman demonstrates that the Nazis took a real, sustained, significant, and revealing interest in American race policies. As Whitman shows, the Nuremberg Laws were crafted in an atmosphere of considerable attention to the precedents American race laws had to offer. German praise for American practices, already found in Hitler's __Mein Kampf__, was continuous throughout the early 1930s, and the most radical Nazi lawyers were eager advocates of the use of American models. But while Jim Crow segregation was one aspect of American law that appealed to Nazi radicals, it was not the most consequential one. Rather, both Ame

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Author

James Q Whitman; Project Muse

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691172422

Category

history

Subjects

Law, Science, Fiction

Rating

3.96 / 5 (92 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13