• DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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      6 months ago

      Not only did they inspire the literal Third Reich, but the actual Nazis took one look at the One Drop Rule when they were trying to figure out how to build a racially stratified society and were disgusted at how ridiculous a policy it was.

      The literal Nazis thought Jim Crow was too racist.

      • ashinadash [she/her]
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        6 months ago

        My instinct is that they just didn't want Oberfuhrer Hans Warkrimes getting executed because his great great aunt on his father's side was Romanian or something

        • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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          6 months ago

          That was exactly it. So many of the high command had Jewish relatives that by that rule they'd all be in a camp, so they settled on allowing one Jewish grandparent at most to be considered Aryan.

    • Skeleton_Erisma [they/them, any]
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      6 months ago

      The third Reich fawned over FDR's ability to "break through bureaucracy to get what he wants to serve his country". For the longest time, his feeling towards them were "temporarily embarrassed" at best.

      A lot of this is explained in the book "renegade history of the United States" by Thaddeus Russell.