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is a striking fact that it treated Jim Crow as more radical than what the Nazis themselves envisaged: The Nazi program was to be carefully restricted to instances in which Germans and “coloreds” consorted in public; as one radical Nazi on the drafting team declared, the proposal in the Memorandum was in that sense “very limited”;45 by contrast, as the Memorandum made a point of noting, Jim Crow targeted “both public and personal interactions.”
Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
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