When the National Socialists triumph in Germany, the United States is experiencing the height of Jim Crow laws, which make the discrimination against Black people legal. A mere coincidence? What sounds almost unbelievable is irrefutably documented by legal historian James Q. Whitman: Racism in the United States provided the Nazis with a model for the discrimination against Jews. Ludwig Fischer noted that the reception by the New York Bar Association was warm and particularly satisfying. The lawyer, who was executed in 1947, was the head of a delegation that had embarked on a study trip to the United States. The trip in September 1935 was intended as a reward for a year of hard work that had demanded the drafting of the Nuremberg Race Laws and the overcoming of outdated legal positions from all involved.