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
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”.
However, while both these reasons were of great importance in the arrival of Hitler as chancellor in 1933, there were also many other events which contributed to this rapid achievement of power. Out of the many conditions which helped in the rise to power of Adolf Hitler, the failure of the Weimar was definitely of massive importance. Germany had emerged from the war a destroyed country with a starving population, the people were angry and the morale of everyone was low, this led to the outbreak of a series of strikes and uprisings; such as the Kapp Putsch and the Spartacist Uprising. Furthermore, the social democrats were forced to accept the other consequences of defeat which were presented to them in the ‘Shameful diktat of Versailles’. Having signed this treaty the Social Democrats gained the immediate dislike of German nationalists who quickly spread the myth of Germany being “stabbed in the back” by social democrats and Jews, hence creating great unpopularity for this new attempt at democracy.
Hitler was a great leader in a horrible way. These days most people believe that Hitler was a nasty person because of the holocaust he created but what did people think about Hitler during his days. Powerful, a person who spoke out his thoughts, which all were good ideas to the Germans and so eventually he climbed up the hierarchy ladder and reached the top and in 1933 he became the Chancellor of Germany. Hitler was strongly against the Treaty of Versailles. He didn’t like the fact that 15% of their land was taken by all the winning countries.
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.
These camps are commonly known for their inhumane treatment of prisoners of war. People usually first hear about concentration camps with some association of Adolf Hitler and the extermination of the Jews. These camps were also called extermination camps because the Nazis mostly just slaughtered the Jews. There are many survivors who are still alive today that can tell horrifying stories of their experience in a concentration camp. Most of them have suffered some kind of physical or emotional damage from lack of food, physical abuse, or being cut off from society for so long.
This is shown because the author directly opens the eyes of the audience to the fact that Mr.Himmell was only receiving discrimination from the people because of the stereotypes attached to Germans. People thought that Germans were themselves racist to everyone. Thompson emphasizes to the audience that we live in a world where people make judgments because of a stereotype. He alternates the audience and forces them to question if they make judgments about others or discriminates people around them because of
He tortured and killed millions of people, but he targeted the Jewish people because he thought of them worthless. He created concentration camps for the Jews; he made them
Conformity happens through social pressure, adopting the attitude and behaviour of what others do to fit in, this may be totally against what the individual believes but conforms never the less,Conformity can lead to destructive obedience, this refers to individuals following orders which they think to be immoral, which will cause them a lot of stress and regret. For example Adolf Eichmann, who was a logistical genius, was the officer who was executed in 1962 for his part in the holocaust. He was accused of organizing, transporting and the killing of millions of Jews, communists, gypsies and trade unionists. Eichmann stated that he was 'simply obeying orders'. After the Holocaust psychologists set out to investigate 'human obedience'.
After that the people of Germany began to vote for Hitler because the Weimar government had proved itself useless and Hitler was the only one offering a way out. The people of Germany were desperate and because of this ‘turned a blind eye’ to some of Hitler’s extreme beliefs, such as anti-Semitism. After the Great Depression the Nazi party started to hand out leaflets, newspapers and posters full of propaganda in order to get the public to vote for the NSPD. The person in charge of the propaganda was Dr Josef Goebbels. Hitler and Dr Goebbels had one simple message and found many ways to send it out to the public.