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Jim crow in nazi germany
The relationship between American segregation in the South and state-sponsored genocide in Nazi Germany is clearly drawn through the collaboration and complex interaction with German and American eugenics up until America entered into the war in 1941. Stefan Kuhl provided evidence from both American and Germans sources that provided truth to the claim that Americans sustainably supported Nazi eugenics and racial policies. The leading American eugenicists were the strongest foreign supporters of the Nazi sterilization laws. The main concern of American eugenicists was being incapable of enforcing and legalizing compulsory sterilization laws. German eugenicists aided German propagandists to legitimize eugenic legislation in the eyes of the German public. American eugenicists claimed that Nazi anti-Semitism was not a part of the concept of race improvement. Kuhl maintains that any attempt to designate a group as inferior and combined with a political agenda of racial improvement consists of racism. American eugenicists revolve around racism, politics, and science, which could not be separated within the eugenics ideology. Eugenicists and their supporters still attempt to prove genetic differences in intelligence among races. Today, its supporters have attempted to establish a scientific bias for classifying black Americans as being genetically inferior, yet these supporters have denied association to Nazi racial ideals and its practices.11
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Stefan Kühl, “The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism,” Cambridge
University Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4546610
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