Literature can be an extremely powerful tool of persuasion. One man with one idea has the potential to influence hundreds, thousands, or even millions of people through writing. In fact, one particularly influential piece of literature convinced an entire population of people to ostracize, shun, and even murder their fellow citizens. Compelling texts such as Hitler’s Mein kampf allow me to believe that literature could be considered propaganda. These pieces of literature, when written to pacify a specific audience, can strongly appeal to humanity’s “passions”, as Plato suggests. I believe that authors use literature as a vehicle to demonstrate their personal beliefs and influence their audience to share those beliefs.…
Propaganda is often seen as negative, because of its use of exaggerated statistics or false statements to manipulate whomever is looking at that poster or advertisement to believe that it’s true. For example, the propaganda in Nazi Germany, they would control what the German citizens could see, read, and hear. Dr. Joseph Goebbels, was put in charge by Hitler, in order to control the propaganda that the public population had access to. Therefore, it was his job to make sure that the German citizens were only allowed contact to what made the Nazi campaign seem like the best and only opinions they had. Goebbels said “The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to…
January 30, 1933 marks the day that terror reigns and knocks on everyone’s door as Adolf Hitler becomes appointed as the Chancellor of Germany. Since Hitler took over, he immediately started to persecute and segregate the Jewish citizens. The Nazis were accommodated with the term, “Final Solution”, which refers to a plan to obliterate the Jewish citizens. Many torn from the only family they knew and left to work in order to survive. A once in a lifetime tragedy continues to make an impact upon our environment, but it’s up to the citizens to find the inner strength and help build to keep our society as one.…
The Holocaust was a very brutal event that took place in Europe in the 20th Century. It was genocide; Adolf Hitler and the Nazis murdered about 6 million Jews. This began after Hitler was announced Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933. The Holocaust did not affect just Germany, but the whole world. Hitler with his convincing speeches persuaded many people to go against the Jews. He formed a political party called the Nazis and together they ruined many Jews’ lives. To get more people to join them, they created propaganda that made it seem like the Jews were bad people. The main way used to kill Jews was sending them to concentration camps. The camps were very terrible, many dead bodies were found stacked up together after the Holocaust…
* By 1939, the Gestapo had arrested about 160,000 political suspects of opposition against the Nazis, and who were sent to different concentration camps.…
For this final project we have been asked to select a significant sociological event for which I have chosen the Holocaust of World War II, and then analyze the effects on society by answering the several questions. First how and why this event was sociologically interesting? Next we will discuss what social context that the event occurred in. Then we will look at how many people were affected by this event and the presence of possible trends in shared characteristics of the people affected by this event or similar events. Finally we will discuss the sociological theory that best explains this event.…
Throughout the course of history there has been many mass murders due to discrimination. As a result of the genocides six million people died. Discrimination was one of the largest causes of genocides. In one case of discrimination is the Jews were getting blamed for Germany and Hitler losing WWI. The jews were placed in concentration camps and were treated like slaves and were sold to different companies.…
The Holocaust, also referred to as “The Final Solution”, is considered to be one of the most deadly and extensive forms of genocide in American history. Genocide is, “the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political or cultural group (dictionary.com).” Hitler and his army, the Nazis, quickly rose to power between 1941 and 1945. They targeted many different races out of hatred, and the largest group being the Jewish population. This massive catastrophe resulted in the death of about 17 million people and six million Jews.…
A Genocide is the planned mass killings of a certain type of people based on religion, ethnicity, or some other determining factor. The biggest genocide of all time was the Holocaust. During the end of World War II it was Hitler, Chancellor of Germany, that came up with a plan he called the “Final Solution”. This “Solution” was to rid Germany and her neighbors of a plague they called Jews. It started out with massive shootings of the Jews, a method found insufficient.…
The Holocaust was the country that sponsored mass murders for of over six million Jews by the Nazi government during World War II. It was the culmination of close to a decade of official discrimination, racial segregation, and brutal violence against the Jewish residential district in Germany. Under the shield of the war, the Nazis turned to systematic genocide after 1941, setting up industrial-style “extermination camps” planning to execute the detained Jewish population of Germany and Europe. While other groups targeted for extinction by the Nazi state, including gypsies, gays and communists, anti-Semitism was a fundamental tenet of Nazi ideology. In fact, Hitler believed until the end that the “war against the Jews” was a more important goal than victory in the conventional military battles of World War II. The Holocaust is today known as one of the worst mass crimes in human history.…
Because the magnitude of the Holocaust, it undoubtedly was affected by an array of influences. But, given that, the majority of the blame for the lethality and longevity of the Holocaust would have to fall into the hands of those who spread the propaganda, the very thing infecting the minds of the public and persuading them to play along with their agenda. This was the very planting of the seed that escalated the terror into drastic proportions.…
The army officer is in the house, he says that the people in it can bring one suitcase. In that suitcase they can pack what they wish. It is all they will ever see again. Some pack their jewelry, hoping that they can by their way out of what is to come. Some bring clothes, that way they can still feel like humans when they arrive to their destination. Some do not bring anything, knowing that they will be dying soon anyway. The people in the house have an hour to decide what to take before they are kicked out of their house forever.…
Since I was little the idea of discriminating people due to their physical appearances or different beliefs sounded irrational and senseless. Later, in history class, I learned about the Holocaust, according to the Oxford dictionary: the massive “murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime during the period 1941-45”. This idea of persecuting Jews just for thinking differently was the perfect proof of the craziness I once thought discrimination implied. I founded insane that someone could kill 6 million Jews due to their religion. Trying to learn more about the Holocaust, I found my self in front of a website full of nonsense arguments denying the Holocaust, the title of the page “Holocaust Revisionism”. According to the United Stated Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust revisionism is an “attempt to negate the established facts of the Nazi genocide of European Jewry.” Even more insane than the Holocaust itself is trying to deny the suffering and death of millions of Jews. This idea of denying the Holocaust started as a propaganda movement in Canada, United States and Western Europe, in the bureaucratic language of the Nazi Policy. In 1979, a man called Wills Carto founded the institute for historical review (IHR), an organization that allowed people to question certain historical events like the Holocaust. According to the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, this institute bases its ideas from writers and professors that nave no credentials. So how can people believe and follow Holocaust revisionism knowing that the sources are not reliable? I continued my research and got to the question; can a historical event as important as the Holocaust be denied? If we start denying history then there will be a point where we will not know who and what to believe, so we have to look at the evidences and think rationally. Considering evidence such as testimonies, historical facts and awareness campaigns done by professional organizations, the Holocaust is a…
Many people believe the Holocaust never happened. This theory began during World War II. These people were called the Holocaust Deniers. They believed that the 20 million lives that were lost were all a joke. Important topics in the Holocaust are the history, mental thinking, and evidence.…
The Holocaust was a trouble time for many people and when it was over of many it wasn 't over for others. The Nazis did horrible things and people wanted justice, that 's when the Nuremberg Trials started. The Nuremberg Trials concise of three main things, the crimes that were committed, what happened to the people that were convicted of the crimes, and who were people that here convicted with a crime.…