The Existence And Influence Of The Klu Klux Klan

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At this point in the novel, no Jews have developed a faith in Hitler yet, they still have their faith in God. Their faith in that things are still good. They do not believe that something so evil and terrible could actually succeed. They do believe that something evil could be or succeed for that matter around them. Things like that happened but not to them not then. This attitude is reflected in our own society, in our own time as well. As humans we like to believe that we have moved past the sins of our past but that isn’t always the case. Many Americans like to believe that the existence and influence of the Klu Klux Klan ended because they can’t spread the passionate hatred of a population dispersed throughout a nation. Not in

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