Sure, there might have been an exchange of social technologies of separation, but the development of industrial extermination from early mass shootings to railway, selection to either extermination through work or direct extermination and specifically made ovens is a different picture.
It is not the technology that the meme is pointing at, it is the fact that the Nazis emulated America’s history of genocide and the touting of the burgeoning field of racial science and eugenics. Hitler himself cited America as inspiration for many of his ideas; which is odd since the fought each other. But then again, Hitler never saw the West as the enemy. He tried to make peace with Britain in the delusional hope of allying with them against communist Russia. But the West is like “nope, I don’t know you.”
Anyway, it is often forgotten how much the Nazis took inspiration from 19th century America and Manifest Destiny. After all, Lebensraum sounds oddly the same…
I don’t know about this one.
Sure, there might have been an exchange of social technologies of separation, but the development of industrial extermination from early mass shootings to railway, selection to either extermination through work or direct extermination and specifically made ovens is a different picture.
I’m talking about the 20th century.
It is not the technology that the meme is pointing at, it is the fact that the Nazis emulated America’s history of genocide and the touting of the burgeoning field of racial science and eugenics. Hitler himself cited America as inspiration for many of his ideas; which is odd since the fought each other. But then again, Hitler never saw the West as the enemy. He tried to make peace with Britain in the delusional hope of allying with them against communist Russia. But the West is like “nope, I don’t know you.”
Anyway, it is often forgotten how much the Nazis took inspiration from 19th century America and Manifest Destiny. After all, Lebensraum sounds oddly the same…
I don’t know if it’s ahistorical but I remember reading they also drew inspiration from our Jim Crow era segregation laws.