This is a good article; almost like a condensed alternative to Kakel’s The Holocaust as Colonial Genocide. That said, I have to quibble with the original title: Imperial America was an important source of inspiration, but it was not the only international influence, as the focus on it here implies.

The Kingdom of Italy, for example, also served as an important source of inspiration and many German Fascists scoured it for models. Then there is the British Empire, and the Ottoman Empire’s violence against Armenians almost certainly influenced and encouraged the Third Reich’s own violence, but the author did not touch on any of these herein.

Do not think that I am trying to savage the article. Although it only scratches the surface, it is still very much worth reading:

The linguistic influence of the American model also applies to other central themes in [Fascist] ideological discourse. It may suffice to say that even the term “Endlösung” [final solution] first made an appearance in books in the USA at the turn of the 19th to the 20th Century. The reference was less explicit, perhaps, and was without Hitler’s murderous implications, however it did suggest a “final and complete solution” [endgültige und vollständige Lösung] or the “ultimate solution” [die ultimative Lösung] to the problem of the “inferior people,” in particular [black humans].