Gretel, being the naive little girl that she is, easily believes what is being taught to her. She is easily influenced by others. Gretel roots for Hitler and hates the Jews because that’s what the people around her are doing, so she think it’s the right and mature thing to do. She is affected by the external factors that surrounds her because everybody in their household hates and had biases against the Jews. She also based her own bias against the Jews to her history teacher, her father and the history itself. She would always say that the Jews were the reason that they lost the war. It has been said that individuals can be programmed like a machine whose behavior is not only predicted but also controlled (Kavanaugh). In the movie, it was