Abortion: The Modern Day Holocaust? Ray Comfort compares and contrasts the bloodcurdling Holocaust of 1933 to the modern day abortion epidemic that is sweeping the nation, Comfort then uses the rhetorical context to point his interviewees toward salvation. Comfort does so by exploiting his audience’s own arguments as support for his valid defense of logic. Moreover, Comfort uses rhetorical appeal to persuade his audience and to give support his argument. Comforts interviewees fold quickly under the blaze of pressing questions. Thus, a call to action points each individual to ponder the impact of their bias and generally misleading arguments for primary political viewpoint. Comfort ask his interviewees questions first about the holocaust such as “Who was Adolf Hitler?” Comfort
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In 1935, all Jews were stripped of their citizenship and any other standard rights of German people (“Holocaust Timeline”). In 1933, Germany was home to around 525,000 Jews, or about one percent of Germany’s population. Nurenberg Law of 1935, stated that anyone with three or more Jewish grandparent was considered a Jew, Germans with two Jewish grandparents were considered, “Mischlings or half breeds.” Under this new law, Jews were ordinary subjects for stigmatization and persecution. From 1933 to 1939, hundred of thousands of Jews fled Germany, while those who remained lived in a perpetual state of fear and unpredictability. In February, 1934 around eighty to eighty five percent of Jews who would have been murdered in the Holocaust were already dead (“Holocaust Timeline”). In the 1940s, Hitlers empire was expanding rapidly, Jews from all over the continent were being transported to Polish ghettos. Beginning in 1941, every Jew was assigned a yellow star, which made Jews an obvious target (“The Holocaust”). By 1942, Nazi officials have contrived a “Final Solution - Their plan to kill all European Jews” (“Holocaust Timeline”). The first mass gassings began in the camp of Belzec in March
In 1935, all Jews were stripped of their citizenship and any other standard rights of German people (“Holocaust Timeline”). In 1933, Germany was home to around 525,000 Jews, or about one percent of Germany’s population. Nurenberg Law of 1935, stated that anyone with three or more Jewish grandparent was considered a Jew, Germans with two Jewish grandparents were considered, “Mischlings or half breeds.” Under this new law, Jews were ordinary subjects for stigmatization and persecution. From 1933 to 1939, hundred of thousands of Jews fled Germany, while those who remained lived in a perpetual state of fear and unpredictability. In February, 1934 around eighty to eighty five percent of Jews who would have been murdered in the Holocaust were already dead (“Holocaust Timeline”). In the 1940s, Hitlers empire was expanding rapidly, Jews from all over the continent were being transported to Polish ghettos. Beginning in 1941, every Jew was assigned a yellow star, which made Jews an obvious target (“The Holocaust”). By 1942, Nazi officials have contrived a “Final Solution - Their plan to kill all European Jews” (“Holocaust Timeline”). The first mass gassings began in the camp of Belzec in March