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JustAnotherGen

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5. And he learned
Sat Sep 20, 2025, 09:41 PM
Sep 20

So much of that from America.

https://www.history.com/articles/how-the-nazis-were-inspired-by-jim-crow

One of the most striking Nazi views was that Jim Crow was a suitable racist program in the United States because American Blacks were already oppressed and poor,” he says. “But then in Germany, by contrast, where the Jews (as the Nazis imagined it) were rich and powerful, it was necessary to take more severe measures.”

Because of this, Nazis were more interested in how the U.S. had designated Native Americans, Filipinos and other groups as non-citizens even though they lived in the U.S. or its territories. These models influenced the citizenship portion of the Nuremberg Laws, which stripped Jewish Germans of their citizenship and classified them as “nationals.”


We've been here before - only now it is expanded to include white Americans.

Indigenous, Black, Philippino, Jewish etc etc We have intergenerational trauma passed down from.ancestors that survived that America. This is why we see things cynically.

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