what are some persecutions in history that are similar to the salem witch trials?

Question

i am looking for situations like...
the holocaust
japanese internment camp
and arab americans following 9-11

times where people were falsely accused of things?

Answer 1

Gitmo!

Answer 2

You probably should be encouraged to do your own homework, but at the risk of encouraging laziness, I will give you an answer. I suggest that you research "McCarthyism".

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McCarthyism is the term describing a period of intense anti-Communist suspicion in the United States that lasted roughly from the late 1940s to the late 1950s. The term derives from U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, a Republican of Wisconsin. The period of McCarthyism is also referred to as the Second Red Scare, and coincided with increased fears of Communist influence on American institutions, espionage by Soviet agents, heightened tension from the Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, the success of the Chinese Communist revolution (1949) and the Korean War (1950-1953).

During this time people in a variety of situations, primarily those employed in government, in the entertainment industry or in education, were accused of being Communists or communist sympathizers and became the subject of aggressive investigations and questioning before various government or privately run panels, committees and agencies. Suspicions were often given credence despite inconclusive or questionable evidence, and the level of threat posed by a person's real or supposed leftist associations or beliefs was often greatly exaggerated. Many people suffered loss of employment, destruction of their careers, and even imprisonment. Most of these punishments came about through trial verdicts that would later be overturned, laws that would later be declared unconstitutional, dismissals for reasons that would be later declared illegal or actionable,or extra-legal procedures that would later come into general disrepute.

Answer 3

Let's see people who didn't read the Bible, people who didn't followed the Bible, mainly Puritans believed in this. People who didnt listen to their husbands, danced, the way they would wear, the way they talk to certain types of person, etc. Refer to The Crucible. I think the holocaust and the Salem witch trials were similar. When the Nazis did the Night of Broken Glass incident they blamed on the Jews, or when the city hall was burn down it was the Jews fault.

Well, when people they hated, or made up lies those people were accused of witch crafts with no proofs.

ex- I accused you of burning down my house, when really I catch my house on fire. I told the police that you were Jewish and you were doing witchcrafts (taking back around those 2 time periods)

Answer 4

How about the Spanish Inquisition, when people were dragged before a group of cardinals and priests and forced to prove that they weren't heretics against the Catholic faith. Hundreds of people who thought they were Catholic were burned at the stake because they weren't Catholic enough.

Same thing happened in England during the reign of Mary I ("Bloody Mary"). She had her own inquisition when she tried to "burn the heresy" out of England by forcing protestants to convert. She burned quite a few protestants who refused.

How about the rule of Stalin in the USSR. Tens of thousands went to concentration camps and their deaths for being "subversives" because they supposedly weren't supportive of the communist party. In reality, people often falsely accused others to settle personal scores or obtain advancement over competitors.

And more recently the Rwandan genocide where Hutus murdered Tutsis and people who "looked" like Tutsis and couldn't prove their tribal heritage as Hutu. Hundreds of thousands were killed in a matter of days.

Answer 5

Spanish Inquisition.

Answer 6

For a while in the late '60's and into the '70's and '80's there was an extreme anti-Gay Christian movement whose followers motto was,
"Kill a queer for Christ."
And they did, too!

Answer 7

the Spanish inquisition

Answer 8

Joan of Arc.......

Though I disagree with you on the post 911 note.

Answer 9

Darn you already said both of mine. Oh well =P

Answer 10

Here ya go: