![]() ![]() The more revealing point, however, is when the US invokes The Holocaust. To highlight unfolding crimes abroad, the US often summons memories of The Holocaust. ![]() Blacks in the American South suffered the same legal disabilities and were the object of much greater spontaneous and sanctioned popular violence than the Jews in prewar Germany. The Nazis explicitly invoked this US precedent when they enacted their own sterilization laws.'' The notorious 1935 Nuremberg Laws stripped Jews of the franchise and forbade miscegenation between Jews and non-Jews. ![]() In fact, Hitler modeled his conquest of the East on the American conquest of the West.* During the first half of this century, a majority of American states enacted sterilization laws and tens of thousands of Americans were involuntarily sterilized. “Manifest Destiny anticipated nearly all the ideological and programmatic elements of Hitler's Lebensraum policy. ![]()
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