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Actually they were, they were copying fascist Italy under Mussolini, down to the "roman salute" that Mussolini lifted from Hollywood (and was almost certainly an early Hollywood invention) and given both Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy coexisted in time, they had an interesting geopolitical relationship, with Nazi Germany at first looking up to and emulating Fascist Italy, but then later they reinstalled Mussolini into power in Italy as a puppet state of Germany's
Their main inspiration was America and our treatment of non-white people.
So while there was a concerning amount of support for Nazi Germany in America and the El Paso "fumagation" practice applied to Mexican migrants entering the country was a direct inspiration for Nazi extermination camps I'm not aware of any other direct inspiration that Nazi's took from the United States specifically.
I wish I had the information at my finger tips but the Nazis took a lot of inspiration from eugenics in the USA and Jim Crow laws.
Y'know what now that you say that it did jog some memories of stuff I've read about so you're right, they did pull some inspiration from the US for some of their eugenic and expansionist policies
Yup, for a long time the USA has been a fascist state to PoC.