Hitler captured people in his speeches with his promises of a better Germany, but he also taught his hatred of Jews in the process. “It was Hitler’s belief that the Jews had too much money, land and the power of the press.” (library.thinkquest.org) Hitler caused mass hysteria against Jews by creating this frame of mind that they were the cause of all things bad just like Abigail and her posse did to Salem. Unfortunately, the people who are completely innocent in these cases get punished the most. In both the Salem witch trials and the Holocaust many people were killed who were not
‘’ You believe all these lies you know nothing we attacked England first. We are as much to blame for killing of men women and children’’. Source: Soldier Boys He told him Dieter that Hitler would put Jews on trains and ship them off to death camps were they would get gassed. Dieter said he was a traitor but was slowly considering that Schaefer might be right. Dieter didn’t think that war was gruesome.
The aim of using propaganda was to indoctrinate the youth of Nazi Europe. The Nazis used special techniques to convince Europe’s youth of their ideology. In Germany, the Hitler youth was set up with the aim of convincing and recruiting youths to the Nazis and encouraging military service. They took control of radio, film, newspapers and begun to spread their veil of hate and lies. For example German school children would receive maths problems relating to how many bombs were needed to destroy a town of Jewish people, this sort of propaganda was not uncommon from the Nazis.
Elaine Xu Mr. Bohnak English 11th 10/1/14 Comparison Essay Introduction “Throughout this unit we have explored the motif of monsters as it relates to dystopian literature.” I find this choice of words interesting by comparing monsters to people who want to create dystopian life styles. I agree with this likeness since in the history of our real world, we have seen dictator monsters causing people to suffer, by their attempts at creating perfect civilizations. One example was the suffering caused during World War 2 by Hitler; who wanted a perfect Arian nation of all white, Christian people. He killed Jewish people, homosexuals, blacks, and everyone else who were not alike and also those who disagreed with his society of only white people who were alike. Today, people suffer around the world with random acts of murder and violence by terrorists; who want to kill all people who do not join in their one group with fanatical ideals about Islam and suppressing women.
Hitler and most Nazis believed that Jewish people were devils and only wanted to conquer the world and bring destruction to everything that people had worked hard to achieve. They also believed that all Jewish people were communists a group that most people did not like at all and so it turned more people against Jewish people. The Nazis also then made a new class for everyone apart from Jewish people and therefore telling the Jewish people that they were inferior to everyone but themselves. All in all Jewish people were treated like rats. Nazis were constantly putting up posters showing Jewish people as dirty ugly deformed scum of the world.
It is just those selfish, greedy people who decide that they want more than what is rightfully theirs. There are also other factors to war but it will always be that the side that attempts to harm as little people as possible, who will be peceived as the ‘good side’. The greedy individuals create fear and anger and feed it into the minds of the people by controlling their emotions and twisting their opinions, for example: Adolf Hitler managed to persuade hundreds of people to dislike Jewish people, friends became enemies, colleagues became strangers. He also fed them images of the ‘perfect German’. This is an example of how people can be trained to do anything just like animals.
Hitler’s power to mobilize the masses and kill innocent people is another example of the power of agency to influence people to commit horrendous acts. We see how racism provided the excuse and rationalization of the genocide. In the movie “The Wave” we observe how students were eager to give up their freedom of will and individual right to feed their thirst for power and strength all this by the suggestion of their teacher. In the end the conflict is resolved when the students realize how they have been brainwashed and that their actions as a result, were determined by a false consciousness which blinded them to the reality of the situation. As Lemert explains people overcome false consciousness by “opening their hearts and eyes to the realities before them” (Lemert,
This is evident when David held her tightly and whispered “God, I’m sorry”. ‘ What could have made him want to hurt the girl, the one he really still loved?’ Therefore characters in the wave saw the positive and negative effects of The Wave but still they chose the wrong path and peer pressured those who weren’t members with incensement of social pressure they managed to get the whole school. Initially, Morton Rhue indicates the reader to the policy of social pressure in Nazi Germany. To kick off the novel , Mr Ross exhibits a video of the German Nazi and how they killed millions of thousands of Jews, taking them to concentration camps and killing them with no accurate reason just out of anger and furious. “They could see gas chambers now, and the piles of bodies laid out like stove wood”.
The police, helped by the SS and the Gestapo, tried to prevent all open opposition to the regime. (Lowe, 2005) Hitler ordered the SS to murder suspected SA officers on the Night of the Long Knives on June 13 1934 to ensure his absolute control of the party. The judges of the courts were Nazis, and they were not fair and impartial to the trials. Hitler’s opponents, mainly comprised Communists, Social Democrats, Catholic priests and Protestant pastors were arrested by the Gestapo and many of them were sent to concentration camps. In Nazi Germany the police were allowed to arrest anyone they suspected to be a threat to the party and anyone who openly opposed Nazi in public would be tortured, even to death.
(Rigby, 2007) Bullying has become an alarmingly huge part of today’s school society. It comes as an even bigger concern that not only is the bullying restricted to the school yard but now days many adolescents have access to social media sites such as Facebook and twitter along with mobile phones. This brings a much bigger issue to bullying within the school as it makes it a lot harder for teachers and parents to analyse and control what is happening between peers. Something that we often overlook is that bullying can also happen between teacher and student. Either the teacher or student can be the bully/victim.