Saturday, December 13, 2014

The "Judge" is Hitler (Chapter 1-4)

The methods used by the “Judge” and “Jury” are similar to the methods used by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in the Holocaust. One similarity is the spread of racism to persecute a group of people. The Judge channeled the hatred of the English to get the Jury to assist him in bullying Pisskop, and the Nazi Party spread anti-Semitism across Germany to get Germans to persecute Jews. This was aided by preexisting hatred of the Jews or English, and the fact both were a minority. Both tortured and killed the persecuted people and their loved ones in an attempt to oppress them. The Judge sentenced Pisskop to beatings, marches, enslavement, and torture, and killed Grandpa Chook. The Jews were sent to concentration camps, where they were starved, died of disease, worked to death, or killed in gas chambers.

 All of this helped Hitler and the Judge gain the support of their groups. They created a stronger sense of identity of who their group was, and more importantly, who wasn't. Now that there are people that are clearly not their friend, Hitler and the Judge used old hatred of a group of outsiders to make them enemies. People followed the Judge or Hitler because they talked about leading an attack on their enemies. They also were able to control the group easier. Anyone who defied Hitler or the Judge would be persecuted by the rest of the group. The main difference between the Nazis and the Judge and Jury is scale. The Judge and Jury tortured one five-year old English boy and killed a chicken. The Nazis tortured and killed more than 6 million people, from infants to old men.  

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