The Holocaust and the CrucibleArthur Miller wrote “The Crucible” in response to the witch hunts of the 1940s and 1950s led by Senator Joseph McCarthy. The Holocaust began when Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933. The Holocaust and the Crucible were very similar since in the Crucible they hunted witches, and in the Holocaust Jews were killed because They were considered unimportant by the Germans. Hitler believed that the Jews also posed a threat to the Germans and that is why he wanted to get rid of them and remove them from society as much as possible. In the late 1600s, residents of the Puritan New England town of Salem, Massachusetts, believed that witches were followers of the devil and wanted to get rid of them because they believed they were a threat to the city. Those they suspected of being witches they would try and if found guilty they would sentence them to death, hang them or burn them alive. They believed that Jews were not just followers of an odious religion. doctrine, or that the Jews had captured too much economic influence, or even that they were too intrusive in politics or culture: what made the Nazis' hatred of the Jews so different was that they believed that the Jews were biologically and racially distinct and that it was a kind of biological struggle for domination of the entire human race between the Jews and everyone else. (David Cesarani). During the Holocaust, Jews were forced to live in ghettos, and it was not a good place to live. Hitler began burning books written by Jews in 1936, and Hitler removed Jews from their jobs and their homes. Jews were forced from their homes and moved to overcrowded ghettos, isolated from the rest of society... middle of paper... and you won't tell them all the names that make witchcraft. Some people in the Crucible simply said that you practiced witchcraft because they wanted revenge or simply because they didn't like you at all, just like in the Holocaust the Jewish people were not to blame to be witches or even to have different behaviors. belief than others. The Holocaust and the Ordeal was simply about blaming all the people who were weak and didn't have the strength to fight back and that's why Hitler wanted to get rid of all the Jews just because they were different from everyone else and to Salem, they thought witches were a threat because the Bible said practicing witchcraft was part of the devil and so if they found out you were a witch they would punish you, they thought it was good since you were doing witchcraft. witchcraft even if it meant killing you.