Salem Witch Trials Vs Holocaust

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What do the Holocaust and the Salem Witch Trails have in common?.The Holocaust and the Salem Witch Trials have several things in common, even though the two took place in different time frames . In the Holocaust and Salem Witch Trials they both compared how the women and the Jews were pushed out of society, how they were seen in the community and the effect they both had on our world's history.
The Witch Trials began in the spring of 1962 after a group of girls claimed to be processed by the devil and accused many women of witchcraft quickly it raise red flags to the village so they opened up court cases to trial the women(Thomas). Throughout the cases the girls started to make up stories to make the judge believe the women was witches(Thomas).

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