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by danans 308 days ago
Which was sadly not uncommon in those days. The Nazi party had a significant following in both the US and the UK at that time.
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That doesn’t make it any better. They also had significant opposition.
Indeed, they had opposition. However, the way we have been taught history has been laundered to make us think that Nazi ideology never had a significant base of support outside of Germany, when the truth was that it was not only significant, but segregated American society under Jim Crow was in several ways a model for the Nazis.
US treatment of migrant workers under the Bracero program and US usage of Zyklon B on migrant workers as a delousing agent directly inspired Nazis. This came to a head at the so-called bath riots in 1917:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1917_Bath_riots

This has come up a couple times before on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38552760

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40381708

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40382627

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40646876

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