the hypocrisy of nazism; Historical records show that while Nazi radicals eagerly adopted American frameworks, they actually found certain U.S. laws too extreme for Germany. For instance, the "one-drop rule" used in the Jim Crow South (which classified anyone with any traceable African ancestry as Black) was rejected by Nazi legal experts as being too harsh. Instead, they opted for a more conservative system based on the number of Jewish grandparents a person had.
