Hitler's 'Ostkrieg' and the Indian wars: comparing military strategies of conquest and annihilation

Westermann finds that the philosophical and ideological underpinnings of the westward march of the American empire and the displacement of Native Americans provide parallels with the Nazi conquest of the East and the conduct of the racial war of extermination against the Slavic and Jewish populations of eastern Europe and western Russia. This essay examines the validity of this comparison with respect to military strategy and operations