Book chapter
The Nazis and U.S. Foreign Policy Debates: History, Lessons, and Analogies
U.S. Foreign Policy and the Other, pp.142-162
Berghahn Books, 1
11/15/2014
Abstract
Hitler and the Nazis are ubiquitous in American culture.¹ Setting aside the realm of popular culture and considering only political references, we find Nazi comparisons in American domestic political debates from the 1930s through today. In accordance with their main purpose one can distinguish between diagnostic, justificatory, and slanderous analogies evoking Hitler or Nazism. The latter category predominates in the domestic realm and includes the Tea Party’s 2010 Obama-Hitler comparison. Shocking as such equations are to people who know something about the Third Reich, they are, in fact, as old as the Nazis themselves; although one could add as extenuating
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Nazis and U.S. Foreign Policy Debates: History, Lessons, and Analogies
- Creators
- Michaela Hoenicke Moore
- Contributors
- Michael Patrick Cullinane (Editor)David Ryan (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- U.S. Foreign Policy and the Other, pp.142-162
- Edition
- 1
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/15/2014
- Academic Unit
- History; International Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9984398009302771
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