Hitler explicitly analogized conquered Slavs and Jews to dispossessed American Indians.

Evidence

“There is only one task: To set about the Germanization of the land by bringing in Germans and to regard the indigenous inhabitants as Indians,” Hitler said in 1941. He said at another point that year, “In this business I shall go straight ahead, cold-bloodedly … I don’t see why a German who eats a piece of bread should torment himself with the idea that the soil that produces this bread has been won by the sword. When we eat wheat from Canada, we don’t think about the despoiled Indians.” On his right to lay claim to Ukraine’s grain, Hitler joked, “We’ll supply the Ukrainians with scarves, glass beads and everything that colonial peoples like.” — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 885

Categorization

• QUESTION: How does Klein deploy this material — does the American settler-colonial parallel feed into her Israel/Palestine chapters’ treatment of frontier ideology?