This chapter examines Herr Krieger's exploration of American racial laws in Fayetteville, Arkansas, as he sought to inform Nazi policies on marginalization. It draws disturbing parallels between the discriminatory practices in the U.S. and Nazi ambitions against Jewish people, highlighting the appropriation of legal strategies across cultures.
In the early 1930s, a young German law student spent a year in Arkansas, studying American “race law.” The fight over the 1936 Games provided Americans with a chance to study Nazi Germany. But it turns out the Nazis were studying us too.
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