Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law Free Audiobook Download by James Q. Whitman

"The United States provided the model for the new race law through exporting attitudes that had hitherto been condemned."

Hitler's American Model is an exceptionally well-written, meticulously researched and meticulously footnoted book about how America's law mandating equal opportunity for minorities led to Nazi racial policies. The book makes a compelling argument that the laws passed by the U.S. government in the early twentieth century were a model for Hitler's national-socialist regime that followed later in Europe and North America.

James Q. Whitman's comprehensive study of how the United States helped create the legal framework for Nazi race laws and policies is a must-read for students of American history. This book traces a series of complicated policy decisions made by American policymakers and corporate actors that gave rise to a complex set of laws and executive orders that allowed for racial purity and anti-Semitism to reemerge in the United States.

James Q. Whitman's thesis argues that the United States was a major contributor to Nazi race law, that it became the subject of fierce debate among Nazis themselves during World War II, and that this debate is not well-known to American readers.

"His argument is that, as a result of evolving ideas in the United States about race, Hitler was able to draw on an American model of racial policy. He argues that from the 1890s to the 1920s, America provided an especially telling example of how to create ethnic and racial categories through legal and administrative measures.

Hitler's American Model is James Q. Whitman's newest book, in which he explores the life of Houston Stewart Chamberlain, a racist and anti-Semite who served as Hitler's primary American propagandist for most of his political career.