In the late 1920s Hans Richter wanted to comment on the rise of a government that was starting to target certain people in society that they perceived as because of their skin tone, place of birth, religious beliefs, gender identity, physical ability, etc. Oh, and the gypsies too. He [Hitler] believed that a persons characteristics, attitudes, abilities, and behavior were determined by his or her so-called racial make-up. To define a race, the social Darwinists affixed stereotypes, both positive and negative, of ethnic group appearance, behavior, and culture as allegedly unchangeable and rooted in biological inheritance, immutable throughout time and immune to changes in environment, intellectual development, or socialization.1 Richter made Ghosts Before Breakfast depicting inanimate objects rebelling against what they normally did. Guess what? It was banned. 1Victims of the Nazi Era: Nazi Racial Ideology. Holocaust Encyclopedia. Washington, D.C.: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 2014. ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007457. Print.
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