Most Holocaust survivors experienced the Holocaust as children and for that reason the Holocaust is today regarded very often as a crime against children.
It involves only presenting information
that is positive to an idea or proposal and omitting information contrary
to it.
Glittering generalities are words that
have different positive meaning for individual subjects, but are linked to
highly valued concepts.
Words often used
as glittering generalities are honor, glory, love of country, and especially
in the United States, freedom.
The
"lesser of two evils" technique tries to convince us of an idea
or proposal by presenting it as the least offensive option.
It is the use of derogatory
language or words that carry a negative connotation when describing an
enemy. The propaganda attempts to arouse prejudice among the public by
labeling the target something that the public dislikes.
This is an attempt to simplify a complex situation
by presenting one specific group or person as the enemy.
The plain folks device is
an attempt by the propagandist to convince the public that his views reflect
those of the common person and that they are also working for the benefit
of the common person.
Simplification
is extremely similar to pinpointing the enemy, in that it often reduces a
complex situation to a clear-cut choice involving good and evil.
Testimonials are quotations or endorsements, in or
out of context, which attempt to connect a famous or respectable person with
a product or item.
Transfer is often used in politics and during
wartime. It is an attempt to make the subject view a certain item in the same
way as they view another item, to link the two in the subjects mind.
This site provides a comprehensive timeline of the Holocaust. It provides multiple links, photos, definitions, audio and video. This is an essential resouce.
Roosevelt's loathing of the whole Nazi regime was known the moment he took office.
Thomas Mann, the most famous of the non-Jewish refugees from the Nazis, met with FDR at the White House in 1935 and confided that for the first time he believed the Nazis would be beaten because in Roosevelt he had met someone who truly understood the evil of Adolf Hitler.