We Americans, having never in living memory been occupied by a foreign power, tend to look at the abuses of Nazi occupiers and think “couldn’t possibly happen here”, except...
...a lot of it *has* happened here, often at the hands of the US government, just as whitewashed and ignored as the Nazi leadership hoped the Wannsee Conference would forever be. Few Americans know places like Tanforan, Sand Creek, Wounded Knee... the list goes depressingly on.
