In the world today, there are many people who are put in jail, prison, or even being killed because of being wrongly accused and not having a say in the matter. However in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692, there were more than two-hundred accused and twenty that were executed because of this same reason. Also, in 1933 to 1945, during the holocaust, there were over sixty million accused, thrown into concentration camps to rot away, and were not able to have a say in anything that happened, or even try to justify their case. The Holocaust is similar to the Salem Witch Trials because in both events people were accused of things due to fear and vengeance, all who were involved thought that what they were doing was the right thing, and both events
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The small things were what started the pandemonium from the Salem Trials, which led people to slowly be comfortable with falsely accusing men and women. (Roach) If it started out with larger events, they would not have been comfortable with immediate punishment. However, with the events gradually getting more intense, they felt the punishments had to follow suit. They knew witchcraft was wrong and wanted to put a stop to it. They just did not know that the ones they put under suspicion of witchcraft were usually innocent just as the Jews were.
The Salem Witch Trials and the Holocaust were not only similar in the reasons of the attitude of why people were blamed for things they did not do, or that the arresters thought they were the good guys. They both wrongly accused mostly one group of people as well.
While the Holocaust had around eleven million people killed, over half of them were Jewish. (Hoffman) The Nazis specifically chose the Jewish population as their main target. The Jews had identity cards, and their passports had to be stamped with a “J.” (“Adolf Hitler Biography”) Hitler and his crew of Nazis really singled out the Jewish and made them the main targets to …show more content…
Hitler hated the Jews because of the war and because he thought God wanted him to; therefore the Jews were ripped from their homes, and thrown into concentration camps without any say in what was going on. The village of Salem knew nothing about witches and was led to believe false information by vengeful, gossipy, teenage girls, so they can get revenge, making the town accuse and hang twenty innocent people. None of these people, in either scenario, knew all of the information and many suffered from undeserved punishment because of it. This is still occurring in the world today because of these very same reasons: false information and/or suspicion and terror. Even today, people should make sure they have all the information before suspecting someone for doing something because they could be falsely accusing
The small things were what started the pandemonium from the Salem Trials, which led people to slowly be comfortable with falsely accusing men and women. (Roach) If it started out with larger events, they would not have been comfortable with immediate punishment. However, with the events gradually getting more intense, they felt the punishments had to follow suit. They knew witchcraft was wrong and wanted to put a stop to it. They just did not know that the ones they put under suspicion of witchcraft were usually innocent just as the Jews were.
The Salem Witch Trials and the Holocaust were not only similar in the reasons of the attitude of why people were blamed for things they did not do, or that the arresters thought they were the good guys. They both wrongly accused mostly one group of people as well.
While the Holocaust had around eleven million people killed, over half of them were Jewish. (Hoffman) The Nazis specifically chose the Jewish population as their main target. The Jews had identity cards, and their passports had to be stamped with a “J.” (“Adolf Hitler Biography”) Hitler and his crew of Nazis really singled out the Jewish and made them the main targets to …show more content…
Hitler hated the Jews because of the war and because he thought God wanted him to; therefore the Jews were ripped from their homes, and thrown into concentration camps without any say in what was going on. The village of Salem knew nothing about witches and was led to believe false information by vengeful, gossipy, teenage girls, so they can get revenge, making the town accuse and hang twenty innocent people. None of these people, in either scenario, knew all of the information and many suffered from undeserved punishment because of it. This is still occurring in the world today because of these very same reasons: false information and/or suspicion and terror. Even today, people should make sure they have all the information before suspecting someone for doing something because they could be falsely accusing