He is right it wasn’t. Hitler was emulating past settler colonial projects. He was inspired by how the indigenous peoples of North America were reduced to only tens of thousands and forced to live in reservations. It is just that no one cared until it happened in Europe.
He is right it wasn’t. Hitler was emulating past settler colonial projects. He was inspired by how the indigenous peoples of North America were reduced to only tens of thousands and forced to live in reservations. It is just that no one cared until it happened in Europe.
Edit: some further reading for the uninitiated:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/how-american-racism-influenced-hitler
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/03/nazi-germanys-american-dream-hitler-modeled-his-concept-of-racial-struggle-and-global-campaign-after-americas-conquest-of-native-americans.html
As well as Germanys own genocides of the Herero and Namaqua.
Not true. Hitler had little care or understanding of the world outside of continental Europe.