Cross Cultural Solidarity

History; in the Service of Solidarity

American Connections with Nazi Germany

Image: 1936 Nazi map studying U.S. “Restrictions on Negro Rights.”

Books

Bradley W. Hart: Hitler’s American Friends: The Third Reich’s Supporters in the United States.

Stefan Kuhl: The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism.

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

Articles

Silvie Andrews: The (First) Time Nazis Marched in Portland.

Russ Bellant (interview): Seven Decades of Nazi Collaboration: America’s Dirty Little Ukraine Secret.

John Broich: Allied leaders were anti-Nazi, but not anti-racist. We’re now paying the price for their failure.

Lynn Burnett: The American Influence on Nazi Race Law

Lynn Burnett: The Global Context of the Civil Rights Movement.

Bradley W. Hart: It started with Nazis: Concerns over foreign agents not just a Trump-era phenomenon. The initial aim of FARA was long forgotten: the prosecution of Nazis for interfering with American democracy.

Ira Katznelson: What America Taught the Nazis: In the 1930s, the Germans were fascinated by the global leader in codified racism—the United States.

Nancy K. MacLean: America’s Brush With Fascism: The second KKK shared a disquieting kinship with European fascist movements. Why did it fail to take over American politics?

Brent Staples: How the Swastika Became a Confederate Flag.

Ishaan Tharoor: What Americans thought of Jewish refugees on the eve of World War II.         

James Q. Whitman: Why the Nazis studied American race laws for inspiration.  

Matthew Wills: Henry Ford’s Anti-Semitism: Henry Ford’s newspaper, the Dearborn Independent, published years of anti-Semitic articles, prompting Hitler to call him the “single great man.”