Hitler Admired America's Ruthless Conquest of Indigenous Land

Hitler was enormously impressed by the three great empires of his day, those of the British, the French, and the Americans. He feared both American power and cultural influence, but admired what he regarded as America’s ruthless conquest of a huge land mass replete with enormous natural resources, at the expense of its indigenous population, which was similar to the British colonization of Australia and New Zealand. Hitler’s “Wild West” was Ukraine in the east, an area he imagined Germans and other Nordic peoples would be willing to colonize.

--Bruce F. Pauley, Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini: Totalitarianism in the Twentieth Century, 4th ed. (Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2015), 9.