Holocaust:
The devastating event that occured as a result of propaganda's influence
Jewish Prisoners on Death March, Jeremy D. Goodwin
"Right then and there. Yeah. They took me and my sister and my dad had uh, the seven-year-old Miriam and my mom had the five-years-old, Anna Rae. They were direct for the crematoria."
~ Bella Camhi, November 18, 1999 (Holocaust Survivor)
"And they did pull out a few undesirables, for them. They didn't want them to go to work. I mean which they really were taken out to be killed. And now, we are ready now to go to this shower to be cleaned up from the long journey. And it is a real shower, water is coming out but actually it alternates between very, very like boiling hot to ice cold. That's the way they did it. And each time you really jump away from the faucet. Or you realize you have some water on you and some of the sweat has been just moved about. But then as you go out from this, now they open this door, you go out and there is two elderlies with buckets of water with chlorine on it and they put it over your head. And now you're somehow half way clean."
~ Marton Adler, July 13, 1989 (Holocaust Survivor)
SPIEGEL: "Do you feel a something like a sense of moral guilt?"
W.: "No. I spoke to them in a friendly manner; I never hit, kicked or killed any. I do not feel like a criminal just because I had to guard them."
~ Jakob W., 2014 (Former SS Gaurd at Auschwitz-Birkenau)
Jewish Prisoners, USC
The eleven million Jews who died during the Holocaust continue to be a reminder of the dangerous effects of manipulated communication. The effect of Nazi propaganda on the German psyche remained evident for years following the Holocaust as interviews of Nazi and SS soldiers revealed they still believed they had done nothing wrong. Psychologists were unable to find any diagnosable psychological condition in the majority of Nazi supporters, leaving environment as the sole factor that determined their actions.