Annotated Bibliography: Building The Nazi Mindset

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BEISEL, DAVID R. "Building The Nazi Mindset." Journal Of Psychohistory 37.4
(2010): 367-374. Academic Search Complete. Web. 25 Oct. 2015.
This article presents to us some of the reason as to what caused the rise of the Nazi party in Germany. It explores the psychological reason as to what causes the wide-acceptance of the Nazi’s “final solution.” The author outlines three major psychological mechanisms in which German society used to permit the atrocities against the Jews. By using this article, we are able to comprehend what caused the rise of the Nazis to power in Germany. We could explore how this raised, influenced people into committing atrocities against humans. The result of people having emotional fear over the party could be one example of psychological torture. Since they were afraid of dying, they needed to do what was told of them to do. …show more content…

Her diary described the struggles that she faced while in hiding. She dealt with humanity and her own identity. She considered herself to be German, but her German citizenship was revoked. Although she calls Holland her home, the Dutch people turned against the Jews. She was left with no country and with no identity at the end. Her family was captured on August 4, 1944, when she and her family was subsequently arrested. It is believed that Anne Frank died because of the typhus epidemic. This story showed how the unimaginable horror people suffered in the Holocaust from a young person’s perspective. Her story is a true personal account of a life in hiding. It showed how morality shifts during a time of war. It showed how morality is not absolute sometimes and that it describes how a person’s own perseverance of survival is eventually compromised by somebody else’s death. The person who had told where the Franks were living, must have been under pressure to tell where the Frank family were

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