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Through intensive scrutiny of german language transcripts and other primary sources that he translated himself yale law school professor james whitman develops a story in hitlers american model the united states and the making of nazi race law of unintended american inspiration for the infamous nazi anti jewish laws. In the early 1930s nazi lawyers were engaged in creating a race law founded on anti miscegenation law and race based immigration naturalization and second class citizenship law they went looking for foreign models and found them in the united states of america 17 chapter 2. James q whitmans new book is called hitlers american model the united states and the making of nazi race law it is understated and overdocumented difficult to argue with no doubt some will try. In hitlers american model whitman has provided a powerful tool to break the tyranny of godwins law which holds that the longer an internet debate continues the more certain it is that one party will bring up the nazi analogy over our ability to scrutinize our american past and our present political discourse with the full scope of comparative inquiry. Start your review of hitlers american model the united states and the making of nazi race law write a review aug 24 2017 sara salem rated it it was amazing