The American turn towards Nazi began in the 1920s.
I was told that a man that I knew was grand dragon of the Chester County KKK. He might have marched in this parade:
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- Ku Klux Klan parade, Washington, D.C., Sept. 13, 1926
Much of Hitler’s plan utilized the legal underpinnings of slavery in the United States.
The legal model for Nazi Race Law was the legalized slavery of the United States partly codified by John C. Calhoun.
Black people and by extension all poor & middle class people gaining real political power is a direct threat to capitalism & the .1% wealthy. Police attacks on Black Lives Matter protesters will continue after Trump is out of power.
Thursday, July 30, 2020
"There was no more extravagant site for Third Reich political theater than the spectacular parade grounds, two large stadiums, and congress hall in Nuremberg, a project masterminded by Albert Speer. From 1933 to 1938, he choreographed massive rallies associated with the annual conference of the Nazi Party, assemblies made famous by Leni Riefenstahl’s stunning documentaries of 1933 and 1935, The Victory of Faith and Triumph of the Will. Nuremberg was the setting for the September 1935 “Party Rally of Freedom,” at which a special session of the Reichstag passed, by acclamation, legislation that disqualified Jews as Reich citizens with political rights, forbade them to marry or have sex with persons identified as racial Germans, and prohibited any display by Jews of national colors or the new national flag, a banner with a swastika.
Just eight days after the Reich Citizenship Law, the Law on the Protection of German Blood and German Honor, and the Reich Flag Law were formally proclaimed by Adolf Hitler, 45 Nazi lawyers sailed for New York under the auspices of the Association of National Socialist German Jurists.
The trip was a reward for the lawyers, who had codified the Reich’s race-based legal philosophy. The announced purpose of the visit was to gain “special insight into the workings of American legal and economic life through study and lectures,” and the leader of the group was Ludwig Fischer. As the governor of the Warsaw District half a decade later, he would preside over the brutal order of the ghetto.
Every day brings fresh reminders that liberal and illiberal democracy can entwine uncomfortably, a timely context for James Q. Whitman’s Hitler’s American Model, which examines how the Third Reich found sustenance for its race-based initiatives in American law.
Upon docking, the Germans attended a reception organized by the New York City Bar Association. Everyone in the room would have known about the recent events in Nuremberg, yet the quest by leading Nazi jurists to learn from America’s legal and economic systems was warmly welcomed.
Our American Democracy which spread across the world was burdened since its inception with slavery and the laws establishing holding slaves as a legal right for wealthy aristocrats. Hitler used American slavery as his model for Germany’s 'Reich Citizenship Law, the Law on the Protection of German Blood and German Honor”
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In the 1930s, the Germans were fascinated by the global leader in codified racism—the United States.
IRA KATZNELSON
NOVEMBER 2017 ISSUE The Atlantic
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