As Florida county bans Holocaust book, actual neo-Nazis grow bold in U.S. - Rachel Maddow - MSNBC

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18. US race laws inspired Hitler

It's not that the Nazis contaminated the US: the US contaminated Germany.

Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691172422/hitlers-american-model
How American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi Germany

"As Whitman shows, the Nuremberg Laws were crafted in an atmosphere of considerable attention to the precedents American race laws had to offer. German praise for American practices, already found in Hitler’s Mein Kampf, was continuous throughout the early 1930s, and the most radical Nazi lawyers were eager advocates of the use of American models. But while Jim Crow segregation was one aspect of American law that appealed to Nazi radicals, it was not the most consequential one. Rather, both American citizenship and antimiscegenation laws proved directly relevant to the two principal Nuremberg Laws—the Citizenship Law and the Blood Law. Whitman looks at the ultimate, ugly irony that when Nazis rejected American practices, it was sometimes not because they found them too enlightened, but too harsh."

And many other sources.

It's tempting to be shocked that USians admire Nazis, but remember: the Nazis admired US race practices, with an even further inspiration to genocide in the form of the US extermination of the indigenous. An ugly truth we have to grapple with.

We have Nazism baked into our culture.