(Miller 91) It is clear that Danforth has an absolutely senseless reason for killing people because he chooses to believe that witchcraft is real like Hitler chooses to believe that Germans are a superior race and Jews cause all of the worlds problems. Judge Danforth just needs someone to confess themselves of witchcraft so that he and the court may look good to the public. Jews and witchcraft are easy things to blame problems on if you can convince people to believe they are causing them. Scapegoats such as Jewish people and Witchcraft are a lot easier to see as the cause of issues in life than facing real problems such as sickness or political strife. Hitler captured people in his speeches with his promises of a better Germany, but he also taught his hatred of Jews in the process.
Of Mice and Men: Q-In the passage hoe does Steinbeck present Crooks? In the passage Steinbeck presents Crooks as a well educated man who is fiercely protective over his rights. In addition he is portrayed as proud yet as a lonely man. The first insight to Crooks personality comes from the possessions he owns, these possessions are extremely basic. Like the other men he owns little in the way of luxury but has life's necessities like 'several pairs of shoes' and a 'single barrelled shotgun'.
Take one look at another murderous fiend, Hitler. If one of Hitler’s generals had stepped up and followed his morals over his obligations and murdered the homicidal maniac, millions of Jews would have been saved. It only would have taken one man following his personal morals and slaying the ultimate perpetrator to rescue many, many others. Secondly, Torres was an assassin who took the lives of innocent civilians in likeness with the barber – rebels. The barber could have swept away that manslayer with the tilt of a blade and saved the lives of many like him.
Ordinary Men Book Review Juan Almonte History 312 Dr Kadel 30 Jun 2013 Ordinary Men, by Christopher R. Browning speaks of a Police unit made up of “Average Joe’s” who although in the grand scheme of things were responsible for a small percentage of the killings of Jews during the time of the Holocaust. What may be considered atypical about these men is that, at first glance no one would of assumed that these particular men could of committed these acts against the oppressed in the manner that they did considering who they were and their background within the Nazi regime. The term “Average Joe’s” was selected by me so the reader can get a glimpse of a situation that was established for a group of people that under normal circumstances
Country of the Cruel Damon Knight’s “Country of the Kind” takes readers into the mind of a man who is born violent in a society that has surpassed violence. Readers are shown a man who commits an unforgivably violent crime and then is severely punished, but in the “kindest” way possible. The solution of the subdued society is that if the criminal is forced, mentally and physically, into isolation forever all their problems will be solved. Though, the society’s “kind” solution of what is essentially solitary confinement isn’t so kind at all. The “Dull” town’s criminal cannot help the fact that he has violent tendencies; he is mentally different than everyone else, yet he is punished anyway.
But not just the Jews were involved in the Holocaust. Those with mental or physical disabilities were sent to a “hospital” were they were told they would be getting cared for but instead they were murdered with lethal injections, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, trade unionists, political opponents, Poles and Soviet prisoners of war were sent to the concentration camps. Hitler wanted a country with a race of Aryan. They had blonde hair and blue eyes; Hitler wanted to get rid of anyone that stood in the way of this happening. Hitler used propaganda to convince the people of Germany that it was the Jews that were the result of all their problems.
In the novel the wave, Morton Rhue demonstrates how the characters come to comprehend that social pressure is abhorrent and its threatening force not only in the German Nazi but in an average day life. Robert is one of the characters with an optimistic attitude towards the experiment thinking that it was positive and that it was authorized for everyone to feel equal. David also felt what Robert was feeling from the beginning of the trial until he recognized the negativity and the unconstructiveness of research. David has come to thought that the experiment has made him force and brainwash others to become a member of The Wave, how he peer pressured those who didn’t want to be in group or when he nearly hurt his girlfriend Laurie Saunders. This is evident when David held her tightly and whispered “God, I’m sorry”.
After the Holocaust psychologists set out to investigate 'human obedience'. Attempts to explain the Holocaust focused on the idea that Germans had a distinctive culture that had allowed the Holocaust to take place. Stanley Milgram was one such psychologist, Milgram was himself a Jew whom had managed to avoid the same fate as thousands of his fellow people had met at the hands of the Nazis. Historians proposed that ‘Germans are different’ that Germans have a character defect which made them obey figures of authority no matter what the circumstance. Milgram’s experiment was set up to test a persons obedience to authority.
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. The SS largely helped Hitler to eliminate political rivals and was loyal till his death compared to the army and without such support, Hitler would face serious political challenges and lose much public support. The propaganda also played an important role in helping Hitler advertising his political ideology and ideas. The Nazi propaganda department was led by Joseph Goebbels, a Ph.D. in philosophy. Radio, newspapers, magazines, books, theatre, films, music and art were all supervised.
SHOULD MILGRAM’S EXPERIMENTS ON OBEDIENCE EVEN HAVE BEEN CONDUCTED? CONSIDER THE ETHICS OF THE EXPERIMENTS, THE CONTRIBUTION OF MILGRAM’S FINDINGS TO OUR SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE ABOUT SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR, AND THE RELEVANCE OF THE STUDY TO CONTEMPORARY LIFE IN BRITAIN TODAY. Obedience, as a determinant of social behaviour, is of particular interest to psychologists. It has been reliably established that during the Second World War millions of innocent persons were systematically slaughtered on command. Gas chambers were built, death camps were guarded, daily quotas of corpses were produced with the same efficiency as the manufacture of appliances.