It is not the technology that the meme is pointing at, it is the fact that the Nazis emulated America’s history of genocide and the touting of the burgeoning field of racial science and eugenics. Hitler himself cited America as inspiration for many of his ideas; which is odd since the fought each other. But then again, Hitler never saw the West as the enemy. He tried to make peace with Britain in the delusional hope of allying with them against communist Russia. But the West is like “nope, I don’t know you.”

Anyway, it is often forgotten how much the Nazis took inspiration from 19th century America and Manifest Destiny. After all, Lebensraum sounds oddly the same…

From Hitler’s American Model which documents how Nazis were inspired by American race law to effect their racial purification policies:

Nazi law was different, Hanke declares, because the German laws of the early 1930s were “but one step on the stair to the gas chambers.” Unlike American segregation laws, which simply applied the principle of “separate but equal,” German laws were part of a program of extermination. Now part of the problem with this argument, which Hanke is by no means alone in offering, is that its historical premise is false: It is simply not the case that the drafters of the Nuremberg laws were already aiming at the annihilation of the Jews in 1935. The concern of early Nazi policy was to drive the Jewish population into exile, or at the very least to marginalize it within the borders of the Reich, and there were serious conflicts among Nazi policy makers about how to achieve even that goal.

yeah! modern America doesn’t have the public transit we’d need for mass internment