Zohran Mamdani's father, Mahmood, a professor, claimed Adolf Hitler drew inspiration for the Holocaust from Lincoln's treatment of American Indians. He posited that America exemplified settler-colonialism and stated that the Nuremberg Laws of Nazi Germany were modeled after American legislation. During a panel, he asserted that nationalism and colonialism are indistinguishable and equated the goals of the Allied forces in World War II with those of the Nazis, stating that both sought ethnic purity in nations they occupied.
"With the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln generalized the solution of reservations, they herded American Indians into separate territories. For the Nazis, this was the inspiration - Hitler realized two things: one, that genocide is doable."
"The Nazi political project was shared by the Allies, and that political project was to turn Germany into a 'pure' nation. A 'pure' nation rid of its minorities."
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