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Vorbestellen	Zweigstelle: 07., Urban-Loritz-Pl. 2a	Standorte: GP.PR Whit / College 3a - Englisch / Regal 3a-2	Status: Verfügbar	Frist:	Vorbestellungen: 0

Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. In Hitler's American Model, James Whitman presents a detailed investigation of the American impact on the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi regime. Both American citizenship and antimiscegenation laws proved directly relevant to the two principal Nuremberg Laws--the Citizenship Law and the Blood Law. Contrary to those who have insisted otherwise, Whitman demonstrates that the Nazis took a real, sustained, significant, and revealing interest in American race policies. He 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. Indelibly linking American race laws to the shaping of Nazi policies in Germany, Hitler's American Model upends the understanding of America's influence on racist practices in the wider world.

Contents

Introduction -- Making Nazi flags and Nazi citizens. The first Nuremberg law : of New York Jews and Nazi flags ; The second Nuremberg law : making Nazi citizens ; America : the global leader in racist immigration law ; American second-class citizenship ; The Nazis pick up the thread ; Toward the citizenship law : Nazi politics in the early 1930s ; The Nazis look to American second-class citizenship -- Protecting Nazi blood and Nazi honor. Toward the blood law : battles in the streets and the ministries ; Battles in the streets : the call for "unambiguous laws" ; Battles in the ministries : the Prussian memorandum and the American example ; Conservative juristic resistance : Gürtner and Lösener ; The meeting of June 5, 1934 ; The sources of Nazi knowledge of American law ; Evaluating American influence ; Defining "mongrels" : the one-drop rule and the limits of American influence -- Conclusion: America through Nazi eyes. America's place in the global history of racism ; Nazism and American legal culture.