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    miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Political Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

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      They also took inspiration from the Catholic Church and the inquisition. The Church did ethnic cleansing long before the Nazis.

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        The also took inspiration from the Catholic Church

        Not just inspiration but also direct material support.

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          The pope at that time looked the other way.

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            Depends on which pope you are talking about. One of them got allied planes in his sights to get shot down.

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        Nazi legal theorists saw the U.S. as a “pioneer” in racist legislation.

        James Q. Whitman, in his book “Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law”,

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          I believe they got some of their ideas from American eugenicists.

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        Wherever there is a state, there is fascism.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_religion

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