The Scarlet Letter's Similarity To The Holocaust

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In “The Scarlet Letter’s Similarity to the Holocaust,” by Samuel Petit, Jesse Hall, and Trent Wicks, a connection between the Holocaust and the treatment of the Jewish people is made with the treatment of Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter. In the early 1930’s, in Germany, many people thought of the Jewish community in a very poor manner. They were treated as second class citizens, and the treatment of the Jewish population only got worse as Adolf Hitler rose to power before the second world war, and turned the Jewish population into Germany’s scapegoat. Adolf Hitler made it his personal mission to rid the planet of the Jewish people, for whom so many Europeans had misplaced hatred upon. The Jewish people, however, were able to survive the

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