"At the time, any right-thinking American took many of the basic ideas the Nazis espoused as natural and well proven, even if they weren't accompanied by a swas

"At the time, any right-thinking American took many of the basic ideas the Nazis espoused as natural and well proven, even if they weren't accompanied by a swastika. The Germans had spent the 1930s not so much inventing a race-obsessed, overweening state as catching up with one." It's really telling when you realize how much America had an influence on Nazism. Hitler himself praised the US racial quotas at the time