‪Mueller, She Wrote‬: A gentle reminder

[sheshe2]

A gentle reminder

— Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) 2026-05-24T17:59:56.223Z

— Essence of RBG 🦋 (@rbgprevails.bsky.social) 2026-05-24T19:17:10.422Z

And then they came like the ones they fought.

— Kyle Ruggles 🇨🇦 (@kyleruggles.bsky.social) 2026-05-24T20:00:39.526Z

Perhaps the most appalling of these legacies is the way Adolph Hitler and his regime consciously drew on U.S. actions toward Native Americans as a model for their murderous campaign in Eastern Europe during World War II. This is a connection explored by recent historians of Nazi Germany and detailed most comprehensively in Carroll Kakel’s “The American West and the Nazi East.” (For a related account of how American immigration, segregation and eugenics policies influenced the Nazis, see James Whitman’s fascinating “Hitler’s American Model.”)

Hitler’s overriding strategic goal in launching World War II was stretching Germany’s borders eastward to encompass most of Europe. This quest for Lebensraum, or living space, to the east was his central preoccupation. He envisioned a vast German empire extending through the Baltics, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus and Russia — all the way to Europe’s end at the Ural Mountains. This empire would be gradually cleared of its former inhabitants and populated instead by rugged, self-reliant German farmers growing food to feed a great continental power.

World War II, then, was above all a war of colonial expansion. At a time when European countries still ruled much of the world, justifying such rule by claims of racial superiority and using brutal methods to extract wealth and crush dissent, Hitler had many models to look to for inspiration. Belgium, for instance, killed or worked to death an estimated 10 million people during its four decades ruling Congo.

His focus, however, was not on overseas colonies, which Germany had never acquired to the same extent as other powers, but on a contiguous, land-based empire annexed to the German homeland itself. As Hitler said, “Our colonial territory is in the east.” His was a vision of what historians call “settler colonialism,” in which an area’s original inhabitants may be exploited temporarily but are ultimately replaced by the conquering country’s own people.

https://wagingnonviolence.org/2020/10/hitler-found-blueprint-german-empire-in-the-american-west/

[brer cat]

1. K&R

[sheshe2]

3. Thank you.

[SheltieLover]

2. ...

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. Thank you for posting this

[MorbidButterflyTat]

5. "Adolph Hitler and his regime consciously drew on U.S. actions

toward Native Americans as a model for their murderous campaign..."

Also, eugenics.

Buck v. Bell: "Three generations of imbeciles are enough."

"Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927), is a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court, written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., in which the Court ruled that a state statute permitting compulsory sterilization of the unfit, including the intellectually disabled, "for the protection and health of the state" did not violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution."


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_v._Bell

[DemocracyForever]

7. Including southern states racist laws

against African Americans in addition to the genocide committed against Native Americans.

[lapucelle]

6. Allison Gill was a sexual assault victim while in the military.

She was featured in the documentary that led Graham Platner to mock and blame sexual assault victims for the crimes committed against them.

What gives me special insight is that I’m a Military Sexual Assault survivor, and that I was in that documentary about it that he made fun of

— Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) 2026-03-01T18:47:04.263Z

[sheshe2]

8. I did not know this about Allison Gill.

It is heartbreaking what she went through then and now. Scoffed at because boys will be boys, dontcha know and the danged girls/women need to take a little responsibility for gettin' raped. It is all their fault after all.

I however have read a lot about Platner...a lot.

[niyad]

9. Thank you so much for this most important OP.

Some time back I read a book about IBM's connection to hitler's campaign against the Jews. "IBM And The Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Betwen Nazi Germany And America's Most Powerful Corporation" by Edwin Black.

[orthoclad]

21. Henry Ford was besties

with Hitler.

Corporate sponsorship of Nazism survived WWII in the form of armaments and automotive companies in Germany, with many tentacles into foreign corporations.

At the root, capitalism is based on stolen labor, originally the labor of enslaved people in Brazil, the Caribbean, and the South. The labor camps of WWII derived from this tradition.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. For this thread

[BeneteauBum]

11. So true

It’s tough dealing with the atrocious government policy on this holiday honoring those sacrificed for our freedom. They are the true heroes…..not losers as iterated by the idiot in charge. He still doesn’t get it…..so sad!

Peace ☮️

[orthoclad]

12. Hitler's greatest genocide was against the Slavs

He sought to exterminate the Slavic "Untermenschen" in order to create his Lebensraum for his Aryans. The Soviet Union lost 20 MILLION people as the Nazi war machine killed everyone in their way - and this doesn't count the non-Soviet Slavs of Poland and other countries.

This campaign of extermination was the central theater of European WWII. I read recently that about 90% of German casualties were on the Eastern Front.

US racial laws inspired the Nuremberg Laws. per wiki:
"... antisemitic and racist laws introduced in Nazi Germany on 15 September 1935 at a special session of the Reichstag during the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party. The legislation comprised two measures. The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour prohibited marriages and sexual relations between Jews and Germans..." Professor Whitman goes into this in depth in his book cited in the OP.

The US STILL had such laws until 1967, when the Supreme Court ruled them unconstitutional, 22 years after the defeat of Hitler.

The roots of fascism are deep in this country. Let's consider well which "normal" we hope to return to post-Trump.

[sheshe2]

13. Thank you so much for the history, orthoclad.

Ours isn't all that pretty either, you are right on that.

[orthoclad]

14. What is scary is how much our history

has inspired so many of the worst actors in the world.

[sheshe2]

16. It is frightening.

[misanthrope]

18. Isabel Wilkerson covered this in her book "Caste"

The Nazis didn't hide how they were inspired by Jim Crow America, except they declined to implement "one-drop" standards and the segregation of water fountains as being too extreme and trivial.

That's right: Nazi Germany found the Jim Crow South to be too extreme. Now modern conservatives, tell us again how Reconstruction was too onerous. For my money, the U.S. should have told every last treasonous Confederate that they had a choice between exile or execution at the Civil War's end.

[orthoclad]

19. The Civil War never ended-

Reconstruction ended. Much too soon.

It truly is mind-boggling that the Nazis considered US racial laws too extreme.

Maybe we should chant "USA!" with umlauts.

[misanthrope]

23. Maybe I should have said the formal end of the war

It has been steadily waged in other ways since Appomattox.

[orthoclad]

24. I'm not disagreeing, I always like to

say something to this effect. The shooting stopped, but the South won the peace when that compromise election killed Reconstruction. We were making good progress to a post-slavery world until then.

[misanthrope]

32. Oh, I am aware we are on the same page there

Having been in a state nicknamed the Heart of Dixie since about the time the Civil Rights Act was signed into law, I couldn't have ignored the Cold Civil War if I tried.

[orthoclad]

20. more parallels

Hitler's extermination of the Slavs sounds an awful lot like the extermination of native Americans and the theft of their lands. Lebensraum resembles Manifest Destiny.

[Cha]

15. 💔💙 ☮️

Memorial Day 2026

[sheshe2]

17. Thank you, Cha. ☮️🪷

[Cha]

22. Mahalo, she☮️💙

Those who didn't make it

[sheshe2]

25. Where Have All the Flowers Gone

Where have all the young men gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the young men gone
Long time ago?
Where have all the young men gone?
They're all in uniform
Oh, when will you ever learn?
Oh, when will you ever learn?

[Cha]

28. Many have learned, but those in

Power now don't care. Nor does their cult..

Mahalo for the song by Peter Paul and Mary 💔💙 ☮️

[sheshe2]

29. One of my favorites groups when I was so much younger than today.

I read somewhere today that the military losses we had in Iran could easily been avoided but good old Pete had no clue what he was doing.

[Cha]

30. I've read that, too. It was a WMD

Weapons of Mass Distraction. Epstein Files.

I was just remembering that I saw Peter Paul and Marl at Cheesman Park in Denver when I was in Jr High.

Pic at the link, I couldn't get a direct photo..

https://www.dwell-denver.com/blog/cheesemanpark-neighborhood

[sheshe2]

31. Lucky you!

'Weapons of Mass Distraction'...perfect, you nailed it.

[betsuni]

26. Thank you, interesting!

[sheshe2]

27. Thank you, betsuni. 💙

[relogic]

33. I can't help but see this:

“settler colonialism,” in which an area’s original inhabitants may be exploited temporarily but are ultimately replaced by the conquering country’s own people.”

as modeled, yes, through the brutal decimation of what were native peoples in North America. It seems there and in Hitler’s strategy Netanyahu has taken a page. I suspect these tactics of expansion are an ancient occupation playbook that UK, US, FR, CHINA, etc.,etc. are what every President, PM, Monarck, Despot and Emperor employs. The justifications may change to suit them, but the strategy and displacement remain resolute.