{"id":52873,"date":"2017-03-25T01:14:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T01:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52873"},"modified":"2017-03-25T01:14:09","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T01:14:09","slug":"why-the-nazis-loved-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52873","title":{"rendered":"Why the Nazis Loved America"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why the Nazis Loved America<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

TIME<\/a>
\n2017-03-21<\/p>\n

James Whitman<\/strong><\/a>, Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law
\nYale Law School<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nAmerican Nazis parade on East 86th St. in New York City<\/a> around 1939. Universal History Archive\/UIG\/Getty Images<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Whitman is the author most recently of <\/em>Hitler’s American Model<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

To say America today is verging on Nazism<\/a> feels like scaremongering. Yes, white nationalism<\/a> lives in the White House<\/a>. Yes, President Donald Trump<\/a> leans authoritarian. Yes, the alt-right<\/a> says many ugly things. But for all the economic pains of many Americans, there is no Great Depression<\/a> gnawing away at democracy\u2019s foundations. No paramilitary force is killing people in the streets. Fascism<\/a> and Nazism have not arrived in the United States.<\/p>\n

But there is a different and instructive story to be told about America and the Nazis<\/a> that raises unsettling questions about what is going on today \u2014 and what Nazism means to the U.S.<\/p>\n

When we picture a modern American Nazi, we imagine a fanatic who has imported an alien belief system from a far-away place. We also, not wrongly, picture captives in concentration camps<\/a> and American soldiers fighting the Good War. But the past is more tangled than that. Nazism was a movement drawn in some ways on the American model \u2014 a prodigal son of the land of liberty and equality, without the remorse…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nazism was a movement drawn in some ways on the American model \u2014 a prodigal son of the land of liberty and equality, without the remorse…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,28,459,1467,8,20],"tags":[2948,25733,25735,26206,19784],"class_list":["post-52873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-europe","category-history","category-law","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-germany","tag-james-q-whitman","tag-james-whitman","tag-nazi-germany","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52874,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52873\/revisions\/52874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}