What The Nazis Learned From The Early 20th Century Racially-Segregated U.S. - Jessica Blatt

1930's Nazi thinkers and lawmakers were especially drawn to U.S. legal codes based on white supremacy. They also admired the U.S. scientific racists and white-supremacist propagandists of the early 20th century.
Unfortunately, when the Nazis looked at the early 20th-century United States, they were inspired.

The United States' models of legalized racial segregation and discrimination inspired the Nazi lawyers who crafted the Nuremberg laws that stripped German Jews of their citizenship, barred mixed marriages, and prohibited interracial child-bearing.

Nazi lawyers saw the U.S. as the "leading racist jurisdiction," the prototype of a legal regime designed to control "foreign races" living in their midst.

Nazis admired the U.S. scientific racists and white-supremacist propagandists of the early 20th century. Hitler famously admired the United States' "wholesome aversion for the Negroes and the colored race in general."

Hitler's writings and speeches exhibited an approving awareness of the U.S. policies of compulsory sterilization for "undesirable" people, restricting immigration of those that eugenicists deemed to be "inferior races," and the history of exterminatory policies towards Native Americans.

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