Tag: Racism in America

NOVANEWS America’s history of racism. Did it influence Nazi Germany By Rev. Richard Skaff Global Research James Q Whitman the Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale Law School has written a timely book about American racism and its influence on Adolf Hitler, the Nazi party, and the Nuremberg laws.   The author uses historical facts and documentation to illustrate the connection between the American extermination of Native Americans and the Jim Crow models, namely  the guiding light for Hitler and his Nazi Germany that led to the extermination of millions of Jews, gypsies, and homosexuals. . The book links American race laws to the shaping of Nazi policies in Germany.1  . In addition, Whitman states that in the 1930s the United States, as the Nazis frequen...