It's a really tough and uncomfortable question to ask: how different was the racism of Nazi Germany from the racism in the United States, especially during the time of Jim Crow laws? Both periods involved horrific discrimination, violence, and the idea that one race was superior to another. But digging a bit deeper, we find some crucial differences in their ultimate goals and how their societies were structured. Let's break it down: Hitler's Germany: A Quest for "Purity" and Annihilation Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany was built on an extreme and terrifying idea: the world needed to be "purified" by getting rid of "inferior" races. Top Dog Race: They believed in an "Aryan master race" (mostly Northern Europeans, especially Germans) as the peak of humanity. "Subhuman" and Targeted for Death: Groups like Jewish people, Roma (Gypsies), Slavic people, and Black people were labeled "subhuman." The goal wasn...