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Article: U.S. NATIVISM POSSIBLE PRELUDE TO HITLERIAN ABUSES.(RELIGION)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- April 20, 1996
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Byline: Andrew Greeley
Is nativism -- hatred of immigrants -- taking America where hatred of the Jews took the German people?
The specter of what the Nazis did to European Jews hovers over the recent beating of Mexican immigrants by police officers in California. It also is evident in the current move in Congress to deprive the children of illegal immigrants of public schooling.
To read ``Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust,'' Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's new book about the support of ordinary German people for the murder of Jews, one wonders if this country is not drifting in the same direction.
We're not ...