Fear Is Crucial To Mr. Ross

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Fear is crucial to Mr.Ross’ experiment; it helps show the students what Nazi Germany was like. The whole purpose of the project was to give the students a taste of what the time period was like. When Mr.Ross showed his senior history class a video about the Nazis and the concentration camps; a student asked him “why didn’t anyone stop them?” This got him thinking, he didn’t know the exact answer or how to explain it. He wanted them to understand why the people who realized that what was happening was wrong, were afraid to speak up. It was out of fear, they felt threatened by the Nazis and all of their followers. They also were afraid of having a different thought of what the others
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