James W. Loewen Quote

Ironically, Adolf Hitler displayed more knowledge of how we treated Native Americans than American high schoolers today who rely on their textbooks. Hitler admired our concentration camps for American Indians in the west and according to John Toland, his biographer, often praised to his inner circle the efficiency of America’s extermination—by starvation and uneven combat as the model for his extermination of Jews and Gypsies (Rom people).94

James W. Loewen

Ironically, Adolf Hitler displayed more knowledge of how we treated Native Americans than American high schoolers today who rely on their textbooks. Hitler admired our concentration camps for American Indians in the west and according to John Toland, his biographer, often praised to his inner circle the efficiency of America’s extermination—by starvation and uneven combat as the model for his extermination of Jews and Gypsies (Rom people).94

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About James W. Loewen

James William Loewen (February 6, 1942 – August 19, 2021) was an American sociologist, historian, and author. He was best known for his 1995 book, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. A 2005 book, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism, galvanized a national effort to develop a list of sundown towns.