In Discourse on Colonialism, the Martinican author and politician Aimé Césaire charged that Europeans tolerated “Nazism before it was inflicted on them.” Until these methods came home to European soil, “they absolved it … shut their eyes to it, legitimized it, because, until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples.” Hitler’s crime for the Allies, Césaire believed, was that he did to Jews and Slavs what “until then had been reserved exclusively for” the nonwhite colonized in foreign lands. But seen from the perspective of the Caribbean, it was all one long, continuous, snaking
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