Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Accusation in a mirror" in English language version.
... the German police arrested about 17,000 Jews from Poland and deported them across the Polish border. A young man named Herschel Grynszpan, sent to Paris by his parents, received a desperate postcard from his sister after his family was forced across the Polish border. He bought a gun, went to the German embassy, and shot a German diplomat. He called this an act of revenge for the suffering of his family and his people. Nazi propagandists presented it as evidence of an international Jewish conspiracy preparing a terror campaign against the entire German people. Josef Goebbels used it as the pretext to organize the events we remember as Kristallnacht, a massive national pogrom of Jews that left hundreds dead.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)... the Iğdır Memorial and Museum of Martyred Turks Massacred by Armenians was built to support the Turkish narrative of genocide denial, arguing that it was the Armenians who massacred Turks and Muslims, not the other way around.
Accusation in a mirror ... everything that is 'bad' is projected outward. Casting their aggression and cruelty as collective self-defense, they exonerated themselves of guilt and justified this genocide through incitement, demonization, and dehumanization – making the genocide appear not only acceptable but necessary.
Forced, deliberate starvation also played a role in the Holocaust. In the Jewish ghettos, the access to food was tightly controlled. It was up to the Nazis to decide who would have access to meat or bread, and the Jewish shops had a very small selection of foods.
... the German police arrested about 17,000 Jews from Poland and deported them across the Polish border. A young man named Herschel Grynszpan, sent to Paris by his parents, received a desperate postcard from his sister after his family was forced across the Polish border. He bought a gun, went to the German embassy, and shot a German diplomat. He called this an act of revenge for the suffering of his family and his people. Nazi propagandists presented it as evidence of an international Jewish conspiracy preparing a terror campaign against the entire German people. Josef Goebbels used it as the pretext to organize the events we remember as Kristallnacht, a massive national pogrom of Jews that left hundreds dead.
... the Iğdır Memorial and Museum of Martyred Turks Massacred by Armenians was built to support the Turkish narrative of genocide denial, arguing that it was the Armenians who massacred Turks and Muslims, not the other way around.
HALLMARKS OR TELLTALE SIGNS • References to the target group as pests, vermin, insects, or animals, since such dehumanization tends to make killing and atrocities seem acceptable. • Claims that members of the target group pose a mortal or existential threat to the audience, aptly dubbed 'accusation in a mirror' in a Rwandan Hutu propaganda manual. The speaker accuses the target group of plotting the same harm to the audience that the speaker hopes to incite, thus providing the audience with the collective analogue of the only ironclad defense to homicide: self-defense. One of the most famous examples is the Nazi assertion, before the Holocaust began, that Jews were planning to wipe out the German people. • Assertions that the members of the target group are besmirching the audience group, or damaging its purity or integrity. • Identifying the target group as foreign or alien, as if to expel them from the audience‟s group. [citation omitted]
HALLMARKS OR TELLTALE SIGNS • References to the target group as pests, vermin, insects, or animals, since such dehumanization tends to make killing and atrocities seem acceptable. • Claims that members of the target group pose a mortal or existential threat to the audience, aptly dubbed 'accusation in a mirror' in a Rwandan Hutu propaganda manual. The speaker accuses the target group of plotting the same harm to the audience that the speaker hopes to incite, thus providing the audience with the collective analogue of the only ironclad defense to homicide: self-defense. One of the most famous examples is the Nazi assertion, before the Holocaust began, that Jews were planning to wipe out the German people. • Assertions that the members of the target group are besmirching the audience group, or damaging its purity or integrity. • Identifying the target group as foreign or alien, as if to expel them from the audience‟s group. [citation omitted]