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A book people may want to use critical discourse analysis on is Mien Kamph. This was brought to my mind after watching the movie “Operation Finale” today about the capture of Adolf Eichmann the quote on quote “architect of the final solution”. I think that the holocaust was probably the worst manifestation of racism in history and it was partially caused by this book so I think it would be worth using critical discourse analysis on so it does not happen again. For example critical discourse analysis studies the behaviors of groups as a whole. The discourse at the time was very negative in the Nazi Party. This was a result of antisemitism being spread by unstable leaders this just goes to show that individuals can indeed affect a groups tendencies towards racism. The groups discourse once established was very limited and censored. For example the Nazi party would hold rallies where there really was no discourse and was just antisemitic rants by the leaders of the party so when discourse breaks down in a group and everything becomes one sided there is a high likelihood that the groups will start to breed racism when it comes to issues of race.

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