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How US Racist Laws Provided A Legal Roadmap For The Nazi Regime
This book review analyzes the work of Yale scholar James Q Whitman, which finds that many Nazi policies appear to have been inspired by US laws codifying racism.
How the Nazis drew directly on US legal and economic systems to create their own race laws is the subject of Whitman's book, "Hitler's American Model". In fact, roughly a third of a pivotal essay on recommended race legislation published in the influential Nazi book "National Socialist Handbook for Law and Legislation" was devoted to:
...racist American policies and laws — including segregation, the rules governing of American Indians, citizenship criteria for Filipinos and Puerto Ricans as well as African Americans, immigration regulations, and prohibitions against miscegenation in some 30 states. No other country, not even South Africa, possessed a comparably developed set of relevant laws.
The book goes on to track Nazi trips to the US to meet with legal scholars to get details on how to create and enact such laws. These include that of the influential German lawyer Heinrich Krueger — "the single most important figure in the Nazi assimilation of American race law" — who spent an entire year as an exchange student at the University of Arkansas School of Law.
The most cutting and revealing evidence of this link is a transcript of a July 5, 1934 conference of leading Nazi lawyers, who had gathered how to discuss how to practically enact the Nazi regime. The author writes how:
"The record reflects how the most extreme among them...were especially drawn to America's legal codes based on white supremacy."
