At the Museum of Tolerance, the first thing I saw was a mini-video that had clips of an interview with William Pierce who wrote ?The Turner Diaries,? which was found in Timothy McVeigh?s possession when he was arrested. The video also had clips of groups of African-American men making stereotypical remarks toward the white-Americans. They spoke of how for every black man who didn?t have a gun, there was a white man with at least one gun. This is obviously a stereotype because not every white man owned a gun. The leader of the group, whose name I did not catch, had even said that he ?wished they would show movies with white men being killed to the point where the blood flowed into the popcorn.? This particular clip had a huge effect on me. I

After learning all this about African-Americans and how they were treated, I wasn?t sure if I was ready for more, but the tour had to continue. I moved on to the Holocaust tour. What I learned about the Holocaust was all new to me. The Germans felt that it was the Jews fault for them losing WWI. They were looking for a scapegoat to blame their troubles on. The Nazi?s, created by Adolf Hitler, believed that fair-haired, blue-eyed men were superior to all others. Newspapers printed lies that the Jews were conspiring to overthrow any form of legitimate government. Adolf Hitler wrote a book titled ?Mein Kamplo? that translates into ?My Struggle.? In his book, he writes in great detail his hatred for the Jews. He believed that by standing against the Jews, he was working for the Lord. Hitler and the Nazi?s transformed the fears, impulses, and dissatisfaction of the German masses into a subservient political machine, capable of systematic persecution and murder. The Nazi?s used propaganda to manipulate mass opinion and paralyze opponents. Nazi violence guaranteed their swift success in seizing power and implementing racist political policy.

?ve heard of African-Americans being oppressed by the white-Americans since they created slave codes of the pre-civil war era that were later replaced by segregation laws and practices to discriminate against the blacks. But I never realized that the African-Americans of today still feel now, the way the African-Americans of that time felt towards the white-Americans.

By the time Germany surrendered to the Allies in 1945, the Nazi?s had murdered approximately 6 million Jews, along with millions of others. During the Nazi reign of terror and persecution of the Jews of Europe, there were many courageous souls, many of whom we?ll never know their names. They risked and sometimes lost their lives protecting and helping Jews escape Hitler?s tyranny. Free at last, the Jews still had no place to survive. New homes had to built. With strength and dignity they had to recreate things that were denied to them in the past. What was important to them now was the fact that they now had the chance to have a future. They were thankful to those who had helped them, and even more thankful for what they could do now for themselves, now that they had survived.

The Jews, trying to escape, fled to the Americas, but they were refused entry. Only twenty-two Jews were allowed to step onto American soil. The rest were turned away and had to return to Europe. The only way out was to escape illegally. The boats they traveled on were unsafe and many never made it back to land. Even knowing that there was a chance they wouldn?t survive the journey to other lands, they just wanted the chance to escape from Europe controlled by the Nazi?s.

But despite discriminations minorities were able to achieve in many arenas. In the military during WWII, American minorities always demonstrated patriotism on the battlefield. 37,000 black soldiers died for the Union during the Civil War while they fought to create and defend the nation. Even with the burdens of slavery and racism, the African Americans and other minority communities have produced remarkable individuals who made significant contributions to technological progress and economic growth. I al

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