Nazi racial policy was modeled on American white supremacy

Evidence

Bonhoeffer, however, did not miss the lessons on Christianity provided by those marginalized by systems of power and violence in the United States. He acknowledged how white Christians in the United States stopped well short of truly loving Black Americans. He saw how the creation and maintenance of “second-class citizens” in the United States—and the role of Christianity in this work of the state—was also happening in Germany. Historians document how Hitler and the Nazi Party patterned their own actions using the history of race and the treatment of Black Americans by white Americans in the United States as a guide. — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 746

Categorization

• XREF: Dramatic cross-domain historical claim that would enrich the moral-panic/identity analysis in the ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ article — regimes borrowing oppressive playbooks across borders. — connects to: Nonwhite Americans can perpetuate white-supremacist cultural frameworks — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 168; Post-Reconstruction America built a racial apartheid system Nazi Germany copied — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 157; Hitler drew direct inspiration from British and North American colonial racial hierarchies — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror…, 880 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Post-Reconstruction America built a racial apartheid system Nazi Germany copied #corroborates (0.97) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 157
• Hitler drew direct inspiration from British and North American colonial racial hierarchies #corroborates (0.90) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 880