Confederate "Heritage" Month 2023, April 30: One real "heritage" of the Lost Cause ideology

American anti-miscegenation laws had a particular influence on the new Nazi race laws. “It was standard legal doctrine in Germany [prior to 1935], as in all parts of the Western world outside the United States, that marriage was in any case ordinarily not a matter for criminal law.”

Robert Miller emphasizes that the study of American policies on the displacement of Indians: “the American example influenced Adolf Hitler and the Nazis in their aspirations of a German empire in the East, and their approach to dealing with Jewish and Slavic racial groups.”4

Hitler himself was a fan of the pseudoscientific racial theories of Madison Grant, The Passing of the Great Race: Or, The Racial Basis of European History (1916).

This was not just a general influence. The drafters of the Nuremburg Laws relied heavily on the models of American segregation laws and the dramatically racist Immigration Act of 1924 approved in the US during the Presidential Administration of Republican Calvin Coolidge.

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