Hitler framed eastern conquest explicitly as emulation of American Indian genocide.
Evidence
Praising European settlers for having “gunned down the millions of redskins to a few hundred thousand,” Hitler claimed it was now Germany’s turn to engage in cleansings and mass relocations on its own frontier. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 884
Categorization
- SHARE: The direct Hitler quoting of American frontier genocide is a striking detail for anyone working on settler-colonialism parallels.