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[–] Sibshops@lemm.ee 18 points 1 month ago (15 children)

What's the historical context? Like is Nazi Germany copying the restrictions put on after WW1?

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 62 points 1 month ago (10 children)

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

[–] Sibshops@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hitler explicitly referred to US expansionism when discussing lebensraum.

[–] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month 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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