Because of their racial "inferiority," they were accused being the source of almost every social problem took place in that period of time; they were selected to be the target of hatred and they were considered to be the cause of the sickness of the country that need to be "cured". ... Prejudice against Gypsies and Jews are not originated with the Nazis, and the fact that these minorities were chosen as targets of persecution is not a coincidence. ... Language, custom, and even their looking, all became the source of the problems. ...

• Word Count: 1319
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The two pieces of related material that I have chosen are an extracts from Adolf Hitler's book Mein (my struggle) Kampf and extracts from the Warsaw ghetto diary of Chaim A. ... "This (the German's hatred) is not a hatred whose source is simply in a party platform, invented for political purposes. It is a hatred of emotion, whose source is some psychopathic disease". ...

• Word Count: 1016
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Its origins have been argued over, and sourced to different thinkers such as Rousseau, Fichte, Carlyle, Hegel, Nietzche and even Plato, in his Republic (Segre, 2002). ... The chosen scapegoats here were immigrants, particularly Muslims, who, according to Le Pen, were responsible for high unemployment and crime, and threatened French national identity with their presence (Elliott, 2002). ...

• Word Count: 1719
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Under fascism, any potential source of opposition was eliminated including trade unions and political parties. ... Just like the film, any other information that was received by the masses was chosen and selected to support fascist beliefs. ...

• Word Count: 1659
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In order for him to use Jews as a scapegoat, however, first he must make them out to be the source of all problems in Germany, and later on, the world. ... He begins his assault against Jews in the chapter "Transformation into an Anti-Semite": "By their very exterior you could tell that these were no lovers of water[]all of this could scarcely be called very attractive; but it became positively repulsive when, in addition to their physical uncleanliness, you discovered the moral stains on this chosen people." ...

• Word Count: 2487
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate