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Hitler Is Doubly Hated For Enacting Rather ‘Shy’ Anti-Black Policies
As it turns out, the Holocaust was the first of its kind human tragedy that had nothing to do with the economics of greed and even far less to do with Black people.
In the contemporary racism of the United States, anyone harboring KKK-esque beliefs would in that period have found it preposterous the notion that a Black person, or anyone with partial Black ancestry, could ever be the racial equivalent of a white person no matter what culture they adopted or grew up in.
Things were far more nuanced in the Third Reich, where racial lines were far more porous when it came to establishing who was and wasn't superior to the other. What made an individual ‘suitable for Germanization’ was a far broader racial category than what made a man Aryan.
Superiority and inferiority in the Third Reich were rooted in twisted philosophies and deep, pseudoscientific theories on which much ‘thought’ was expended. There was little focus on something as rudimentary as skin and hair color in that category, except for the blondes of course, who had to be led into literal breeding camps, a thing that has remained of great…
