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The questions in the chapter entitled "the French and the Germans" paint a picture that despite defeating the Nazis and witnessing their atrocities, many Americ
by danans 5y ago
The questions in the chapter entitled "the French and the Germans" paint a picture that despite defeating the Nazis and witnessing their atrocities, many American servicemen harbored deeper sympathies to German culture than to French, and this pamphlet was intended in part to fix that. Examples of questions in that section:
"The French aren't our kind of people . The Germans are"
"The French are not as clean as the Germans"
"The Germans are easier to get along with than the French, because the Germans are law abiding"
This is reminder that despite the US being at war with the Nazis in WWII, the heinous beliefs behind the Nazi agenda had a lot of resonance in many other countries, including the United States. In fact, in recent years, it's become better understood how Nazism was inspired in part by the Jim Crow laws and culture in the US.
https://www.ushmm.org/collections/bibliography/nazism-and-the-jim-crow-south https://www.ushmm.org/collections/bibliography/nazism-and-th...
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/how-american-racism-influenced-hitler https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/how-american-r...
https://www.history.com/news/how-the-nazis-were-inspired-by-jim-crow https://www.history.com/news/how-the-nazis-were-inspired-by-...