Hitler, Nazism, Jim Crow, and the United States

Matthew Teutsch
11 min readMar 24, 2022

In the Spring 1942–1943 issue of South Today, Lillian Smith and Paula Snelling wrote two articles: “Buying a New World with Old Confederate Bills” and “Addressed to Intelligent White Southerners: There are things to do.” Each of these articles confront the connections between the Jim Crow South, and the United States as a whole, and Nazism in Germany and the European theatre. At one point in the former…

Matthew Teutsch

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