Hitler’s American Model: The United States and Nazi Race Law featuring James Q. Whitman

Nazism triumphed in Germany at a time Jim Crow held sway 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, prominent legal scholar James Q. Whitman presents a detailed investigation of the American impact on the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi regime. Indelibly linking American race laws to the shaping of Nazi policies in Germany, Hitler’s American Model upends understandings of America’s influence on racist practices in the wider world. Whitman is the Ford Foundation of Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale Law School and the author of, among other books, The Verdict of Battle: The Law of Victory and the Making of Modern War (2012) and Harsh Justice: Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide Between America and Europe, the winner of 2004 Distinguished Book Award of the Division of International Criminology of the American Society of Criminology.

• 2024-02-15

• Whitman, James Q.

• UCSD-TV (Television station : La Jolla, Calif.)

• Europe
• Germany
• United States

• 20th century

• Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945

• Anti-miscegenation laws
• History
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
• Jews
• Nazism
• Nuremberg Laws
• Segregation
• World War, 1939-1945

• video

• English

• UC Regents

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