Racist Law In America And Germany Summary

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The author, Whitman talks about how the Nuremburg laws wear influenced or modeled after the American racist laws. He discusses how the laws were praised by Hitler in his book, Mein Kamp, how Hitler said they were some of the most progressive laws in creating the “one state” he had ever seen. He points out several times that the Nazi regime directly looks at American laws when drafting the Nuremberg laws, Hitler’s, Mein Kemp and others. The Jewish population in Germany and African American population both endured beatings, racism, violent mobs attacks in the 1930’s. Nazi lawyers in the 1930s liked to look at the American laws of the Jim Crow south and some of them thought it was too racist. The …show more content…
I found the author laid a good framework for his book by taking the possible critics or complaints head on beforehand and pointing out that inspiration and direct copying of laws are two different things. He uses examples of different scholars who are quick to dismiss the association between Nazi laws and Racist American laws by pointing out there possible biases. This allows the reader to read the book with less of a personal bias and simultaneously acknowledge that racist American laws of Western Expansion and killing all the Redskins, Jim Crow South laws and Eugenics studies had a direct impact on Germany’s racist Nuremberg laws along with their policies of western expansion. This work is different than other historical works because it takes a fresh look at how American laws influenced Germany’s laws without dismissing them entirely based on the claim that they were different because Americans think of Jews as Caucasians and that the laws were totally different and did not exactly mirror one and other. I think that the author demonstrates how his work is different by taking a direct look at the meeting held by the Nazi leaders/ lawyers discussing American laws and explaining
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