Whitman's thesis: that the Nuremberg Laws (on citizenship and blood purity) in Germany drew from and were modeled on American race laws of the 1930s. Citing the Jim Crow laws in the U.S. south, one prominent Nazi lawyer, Roland Friesler, said:

"This jurisprudence would suit us perfectly, with a single exception...the Jews are not reckoned among the coloreds."

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