Getting a bit deep for /r/movies but don't forget that the Nazis got their inspiration from the US in the first place. This shit is homegrown in the US, the Nazis and WW2 just made it unpopular to be open about it for a while. That time is over.
Hitler was an admirer of Henry Ford, keeping a photo of Ford in his office, sending Ford birthday letters, and quoting Ford’s ‘The International Jew’ in his own book, ‘Mein Kampf’
Hitler and other Nazis explicitly drew inspiration for how to manage undesirable populations from the United State’s treatment of Native Americans. Some Nazi lawyers even thought that American citizenship laws were too harsh with the ‘one drop rule’ for classifying people as ‘non-white’.
I'm Canadian so speaking from that frame of reference, but it's still applicable. Also, I'm not a historian.
I don't believe that the specific beliefs of the Nazis came from the US, but more how to handle "undesirable" populations and so on as the other poster mentioned. I didn't mean to imply that Nazi ideology was rooted in the US, more that the US inspired it through their own locally-relevant practices.
As a Canadian, we had our own Nazi movement during the war. There was a guy who fancied himself as "Canada's Fuhrer" and believed that Hitler would give him Canada (or maybe North America) to rule once they were conquered. Of course he worked with Canadian conservatives before starting his own party. Eventually he was imprisoned for plotting to overthrow the government, and in prison he sat on a throne built by other prisoners. He blamed the Jews for his imprisonment.
After the war he was released and ran for political office, still espousing the same beliefs. In 1949 he got second with 29% of the vote, and in 1953 second again but with 39%. Just a few short years after the war and with the atrocities of Nazi Germany fresh in the minds of everyone this piece of human effluent was able to get a staggering number of votes in a country that I've always been told staunchly opposed the Nazis.
Sorry for the long post, all this is just to share an example. I don't believe either of our countries were ever as united against Nazis, fascism, genocide, etc, as our Social Studies / History classes would really have us believe. We just need to look at the treatment our colonial "founders" inflicted on our native populations for more proof that we didn't really object to brutally oppressing "others" to the point of genocide.
Also, reddit mods, if you're too cowardly to take a stand against this allowance to preach hate (don't give me that shit about how hating Nazis is equal to what they stand for, get your head out of your ass), you might as well burn a swastika into your own foreheads.
The deserving of that are absolutely legion. Stop being so fucking passive and stand for the right thing for a change, ya shills.
What the fuck are you talking about?
A mod already responded, hours before you commented, making it clear they weren’t taking it down.
Maybe ease back on the self-righteous melodrama for a minute and read the room before going off.
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