• Crikeste@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Hitler called the genocide of native Americans ‘the first great cleansing’ and used it as a framework for ‘his second’. To think that Hitler looked up to the United States really starts to change you as an American. Especially in our current context.

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      3 months ago

      He was also inspired by how racist the US was and how they had demonized and segregated Black peoples as second class citizens while still having a great public perception as a country on the world stage

      Nazis also used Zyklon B in gas chambers inspired by the US using it in Mexicans crossing the border to have to work