The Camp In total, 6 million people died in the Holocaust; 1.5 million of them died at the Auschwitz concentration camp. The Holocaust created a great deal of controversy all over the world and in turn, changed people’s opinions of Jewish people and Germans. The Auschwitz concentration camp imprisoned millions of Jewish people who didn’t know what their next day would entail. Deindividuation and social polarization was seen all throughout the Holocaust but in this case, Auschwitz itself. Hitler was the ruthless leader of the Holocaust. He had plans of how he was going to overthrow the country and,” By 1934 Hitler was in absolute control of Germany, and his campaign against the Jews in full swing,” but the people were unaware of his intentions (“Holocaust”). He intended to kill Jewish people because himself and the Nazis believed that,”...the Jews were responsible for huge events like losing World War One and the economic crisis,” which happens to be incorrect but so many people believed them (“Why”). Because of his reasons, he wanted to imprison Jewish people. First, he made all Jews wear the yellow star, which was discriminatory and others did not even see them as people anymore. Next, they would be sent off to the extermination camps or concentration …show more content…
In The Crucible, Abigail Williams is the leader of the group of girls that took on the roll as witches. Similarly, Hitler is the man who created the Nazi party and they took on the roll as executors. This idea exemplifies deindividuation. Abigail and Hitler were both very powerful leaders and that is how they got their followers to do what they wanted. Regardless of their intentions, they managed to keep control of their people. Abigail Williams claimed to have relations with the devil which was against the town’s rules, while during the Holocaust, Nazis portrayed actions that were so cruel and against the social