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[-] [email protected] 62 points 2 months ago

Nazis got a lot of their ideas from the US, including lebensraum from Manifest Destiny.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

Also the popularity of eugenics began in the US. You even read about it in The Great Gatsby.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

It began in England. Out of Darwinism. Once people had to accept that the Ancient Greek philosophies of “the ideal form” couldn’t exist. (Because of evolution, everything is always evolving) But you could use Darwin and Mendel and genetics to engineer the biology you preferred.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Also, unlimited executive power for the top dog

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

That doesn't seem right. Expansionism started way before that.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Hitler explicitly referred to US expansionism when discussing lebensraum.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

A U.S. Supreme Court case on sterilization was cited by the defense at the Nuremberg Trials: Buck v. Bell.

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