Re:American Nazis at Madison Square Garden, 1939
by danans on Thursday October 12, 2017 @12:09PM
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> I thought it was common knowledge that support for Nazis in America was widespread all the way leading to American involvement in WW2.
It's certainly not common knowledge, and most school history books don't include it (at least when I was in school). They do cover the Jim Crow laws and the KKK but don't make a connection between those and Nazi ideology.
Even less common is knowledge of how much the Nazis themselves were inspired by American style racist laws and organizations:
It's certainly not common knowledge, and most school history books don't include it (at least when I was in school). They do cover the Jim Crow laws and the KKK but don't make a connection between those and Nazi ideology.
Even less common is knowledge of how much the Nazis themselves were inspired by American style racist laws and organizations:
http://www.history.com/news/how-the-nazis-were-inspired-by-j...
EDIT: wording