Intimidation During The Holocaust

It is said that those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it. This is true time and time again as people make the same mistakes century after century. During America’s formation the puritan people feared the devil above all else leading to a mass killing of innocents deemed “witches”. Then again during the McCarthy era the Americans did not think as the ratted out their friends and family to the government hungry for a scapegoat. Even again a similar event took place during WWII, The Holocaust. In each case the use of intimidation makes the powerful are able to carry out unjust and nefarious actions. WIthout anyone standing up to the corruption no one was there to stop those who condemned the innocent.
Throughout history intimidation
A prime example being the Holocaust during WWII, where Adolf Hitler and his followers were able to nearly kill all of the Jews under their command. How could have something so wrong happened without anyone standing up to stop them? Resistance was attempted but failed because no one cared enough to stand up for the Jews. They were too concerned about themselves and were scared to act against the Nazis. The Nazi party would probably intimidate anyone, they had a large following and were taking more and more land. Only when people began to realize that they wanted to kill not only the Jews but anyone not like themselves did people start to act. But by then many people had already died (ABC-CLIO). Not only did Arthur Miller realize what the power of intimidation did, so did Maurice Ogden in the poem “The Hangman”. In the poem a hangman comes into town and kills all the towns people. No one stands up to him, and at the very end he tell the last person alive that he had served him best, then he hangs him. This shows that people will let bad things happen to people as long as they don’t have to get involved. Not only that but the poem includes the use of intimidation as seen time and time again throughout history. “Then one cried ‘Murder!’ and one ried ‘Shame!’... and he laid his hand on that one’s arm” (Ogden), here the hangman kills a man who