Analysis Of Dear Kitty

The documentary, “Dear Kitty” revolves around Miep Gies, and her recollection of helping Anne Frank and her family go into hiding. Miep, was a Dutch citizen who was hired by Anne’s father, Otto Frank. In the summer of 1942, Mr. Frank had initially hired Miep to be the secretary of the business he managed, but with the Nazis ceasing all the Jews from Holland, he would soon need her help with hiding his family. Miep, along with the other four staff members, agreed to help. The Frank family hid in an attic above the business where both Miep and Mr. Frank worked at. Miep and the rest of the workers acted normal during regular work hours so they would not look suspicious. Unfortunately, Anne and her family were found and taken to a concentration …show more content…
Hitler and the Nazi’s can be categorized as the perpetrator. Hitler was a powerful dictator who had persuaded the minds of the German people to think like him. Chapter seven explains persuasion as the process by which a message induces change in beliefs, attitudes or behaviors (Myers 226). The Nazis were a prejudice group that wanted to eliminate the Jewish people. Chapter nine defines prejudice as a preconceived negative judgment of a group and its individual members (Myers 309). The Nazis showed a negative attitude and behavior towards the Jews. The Nazis discriminated the Jews because of religious differences. In chapter nine, discrimination is defined as an unjustified negative behavior toward a group or its members (Myers 310). The Nazis were people who were really aggressive. On chapter ten the term aggression is explained as a physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt someone (Myers 354). There are two types of aggression, which are hostile and instrumental. Hostile aggression means aggression that springs from anger, its goal is to injure (Myers 355). Instrumental aggression is aggression that aims to injure but only as a means to some other end (Myer 355). The Nazis displayed behavior of hostile aggression when they ceased the Jews to the concentration camps. In the documentary, it describes in detail of a bombing that occurred on the tenth of May in Holland by Nazis (Dear Kitty, 1999, 8:50). This bombing was a sign of instrumental aggression. According to Holocaust Encyclopedia, Hitler spread his beliefs in racial “purity” and in the superiority of the “Germanic race”. Hitler believed that his race must remain pure in order to one-day take over the world (Holocaust Encyclopedia?). In my opinion, Hitler had the qualities of an authorization personality. In chapter nine, authorization personality is a personality that is disposed to favor obedience to authority and intolerance of outgroups and those