Hitler's American model : the United States and the making of Nazi race law /

"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 impac...

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Main Author: Whitman, James Q., 1957-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017]
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Table of Contents:
  • Making Nazi Flags and Nazi Citizens. The first Nuremberg law : of New York Jews and Nazi flags ; The second Nuremberg law : making Nazi citizens ; America : the global leader in racist immigration law ; American second-class citizenship ; The Nazis pick up the thread ; Toward the citizenship law : Nazi politics in the early 1930s ; The Nazis look to American second-class citizenship
  • Protecting Nazi Blood and Nazi Honor. Toward the blood law : battles in the streets and the ministries ; Battles in the streets : the call for "unambiguous laws" ; Battles in the ministries : the Prussian memorandum and the American example ; Conservative juristic resistance : Gürtner and Lösener ; The meeting of June 5, 1934 ; The sources of Nazi knowledge of American law ; Evaluating American influence ; Defining "mongrels" : the one-drop rule and the limits of American influence
  • Conclusion: America Through Nazi Eyes. America's place in the global history of racism ; Nazism and American legal culture