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A fear in the unknown has been the root cause for many issues that have plagued the world over history. Many of these problems are having to do with race, colour, religion and ethinicity, which in each has a degree of fear as the cause. Fear has the ability to change the minds of thousands of thousands of people, even millions. this was predominantly seen in the Nazi reign of Germany, where German researchers took the minds of thousands and instilled the idea of fear in them, using fictional stories of jewish ritualitic murder, thus giving them the control of the publics mind. Many Germans were at the time seeking some sort of control in amogst the choas that the Depression caused Germany after World War one. Fear stems feelings of revenge, hatred and disregard for life, creating a need for someone to be blamed. This idea of a 'scapegoat' resulted in the death of approximately six million Jews between the years 1941 and 1945. The German fear or 'paranoia' at the time, expressed in puesdobiological terms, was that the Jewish race was inferioir and sought to 'corrupt' both european culture and Aryan blood.