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Whatisthisisitbad t1_iqrqqit wrote

Reply to comment by kjblank80 in The U.S. & the Holocaust, Episode 1: “The Golden Door” (2022) A xenophobic backlash prompts Congress to restrict immigration. Hitler and the Nazis persecute German Jews, forcing many to seek refuge. FDR is concerned by the growing crisis but is unable to coordinate a response. [02:08:43] by s_y_s_t_e_m_i_c_

Even better, does he talk about how much Hitler was influenced by America's "Manifest Destiny" in the mid 19th century, and used it as a justification for the calls for Lebensraum, or "Living Space", for Germans?

Hitler saw no marked difference in the multi-decade long genocide of native "savages" by the US government to expand it's borders, resources, and strength, and his own plans to do the same to the Slavic "subhumans" that inhabitated the Eurasian continent he planned to take over via extermination and enslavement with General Plan East beginning in June 1941.

Was he wrong? Is there really a difference?

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PoorPDOP86 t1_iqs8902 wrote

>does he talk about how much Hitler was influenced by America's "Manifest Destiny" in the mid 19th century, and used it as a justification for the calls for Lebensraum, or "Living Space", for Germans?

Probably mentions it but knowing that Burns isn't some shill for the "Europe never does anything wrong" crowd he probably also mentions the centuries of persecutions of Jews and minority groups in all of Europe.

Is there a difference? A natural conflict between two cultures that results in the near elimination of one versus the systemic and planned genocide of an entire people. Uh duhhhh I don't know /s. The propaganda is strong with Reddit today.

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Whatisthisisitbad t1_iqw0jyv wrote

>Is there a difference? A natural conflict between two cultures that results in the near elimination of one versus

Natural conflict?

> the systemic and planned genocide of an entire people. Uh duhhhh I don't know /s. The propaganda is strong with Reddit today.

I'm not going for a derr America bad take, I'm honestly saying that when you dig down into what the US did and what Hitler planned, it's pretty similar. Distinction without a difference

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kjblank80 t1_iqrrvwk wrote

He was very much influenced by US academia and intellectuals at the time that saw genocide of natives as a template to then do this to blacks, Italians, Irish, etc in the early 1900s as a means for Germany to create their empire.

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