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Scholars have noted the variety of impulses & origins of Nazism. None of them are American.
What DID happen is that the Nazis recognized and appreciated American racial laws and considered what they might borrow from them. But this isn’t inspiration.
Unfortunately, this idea comes from, at least…
People who read the title but not book Hitler’s American Model. It does not argue inspiration but only consideration and borrowing.
And all this matters because if we continue the idea that the Germans learned Nazism from America, we obscure the actual origins—longstanding antisemitism, German…
Jan 27, 2026 06:09Militarism, antibolshevism, etc.
It’s an unfortunate bit of perversely inverted American Exceptionalism.
You may have meant “borrowing” with your comment, but unfortunately people run with the idea and it should be avoided.
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