Zohran Mamdani’s dad claims the Nazis took direct cues from the United States’ “history of genocide, ethnic cleansing, official racism and concentration camps.” Mamdani, 34, has often credited his father as his greatest influence, but in the elder Mamdani’s politically charged writings, he takes a dim view of the Western culture he happily lives in on the Upper West Side. Radical socialist Mahmood Mamdani, 79, goes as far as to claim at one point that the Nazis got their idea for killing Jews