How America inspired the Third Reich

The Nazis learned about Zyklon B from the US treatment of Mexicans

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A brilliant new book by a Mexican-American historian documents how, in the Twenties and Thirties, the Nazis were inspired by what the United States had been doing to their Mexican neighbours since 1917.

In Ringside at the Revolution: An Underground Cultural History of El Paso and Juarez, David Dorado Romo establishes the US Immigration Department's systematic brutality along the Rio Grande border.

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has published five books, including Photographs of My Father, Last Rites and Night Letter, and written for many publications. He re-relaunched Punch and started the Pandora column in The Independent.