All throughout History, Millions of innocent people have been unjustly persecuted. The Holocaust was one of the most famous genocides known to man in the early 1940’s. Also the hangings during the Witch Hunts in Salem, Massachusetts were another prime instance of people being wrongfully and unjustly accused and punished. Both of the time periods show how many people died horrific and terrible deaths, and in the events of the Holocaust and the Witch Trials power was used to instill fear and hysteria into the people around them. The amount of similarities is appalling.
The Salem Witch Trials in 1692 was a time of fear and hysteria (Miller 1124). Many people in the town of Salem, Massachusetts were accused of performing witchcraft over such things
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Hitler thought the Jews were an inferior race and an Alien threat to the German community and racial purity, so he wanted to get rid of them as well as anyone who he felt threatened his “perfect race” such as: gypsies, homosexuals, blacks, and many others (The Holocaust). He started by taking Jews from all over the the surrounding countries of Germany, placing them into ghettos as a holding facility until they were transferred in the dozens by cattle wagons to the concentration camps (Holocaust Facts). When they arrived at the camps, the weak, children, and the elderly were weeded out and killed first because they would not be able to do the jobs that the older people could do (The Holocaust). The remaining Jews were forced into slave labor and subjected to different experiments and tests until disease, starvation, or exhaustion killed them (The Holocaust). Eventually Hitler’s “Final Solution” came to plan; He sent death squads to start killing off the remaining Jews by mass shootings, gas rooms, and hangings (The Holocaust). By the end of the Holocaust on May 8, 1945, or VE Day, over 6 million Jews were murdered, as well as 11 million other men, women, and children that supposedly threatened the Hitler and the Nazi Regime (The Holocaust