D. with fear
The Salem (and Other) Witch Hunts
The Salem episode was a historic landmark but by no means a rare example of behavior that can afflict frightened, angry, or frustrated people if they’re urged by demagogues to confront an alleged “menace.”
One hundred years after the Salem trials, courts in France launched mass executions of suspected enemies of the revolution that deposed the monarchy. The “Reign of Terror,” conducted without trials and made more efficient by the use of a new labor-saving machine — the guillotine — lasted from 6 September 1793 until 28 July 1794. It beheaded a total of 42,000 individuals.
Humanity’s most heinous crime, the Holocaust, was carried out from 1933 till 1945 by 200,000 fanatics acting on orders of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime, but it was also abetted by crass bigotry and sense superiority then affecting many Germans.
The toll included an estimated six million Jews — one-fourth of them children — and five million other people the Nazis regarded as “minderwertig” (“inferior”). They were primarily ethnic Poles, captured Soviet civilians and prisoners of war, other Slavs, Romanis, communists, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and the mentally and physically disabled. The mass murder was carried out by gas or shooting in extermination facilities located in Germany and German-occupied territories.
How were people controlled by witch hunts?
A. with promises of power
B. with strong leadership
C. with reason
D. with fear
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