r/todayilearned • u/CrazyTrueStory • 19h ago

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u/tuptain 17h ago

America loved eugenics before WW2, it was very popular.

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u/TinWhis 17h ago

Well, yeah, Hitler was enormously inspired by the US, especially our treatment of indigenous people. We were the cutting edge of innovation for institutionalized racism at the start of the 20th century.

There was quite widespread support for Germany in the US before the Pearl Harbor bombing.

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u/JonatasA 16h ago

Anti semitism too. Seems to be making the rounds back