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Similarities Between Hitler And Regina George's Tyrannical Leadership Tactics

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Whether it is a group of high school students or an entire country, when in times of trouble, a sinister person can rise to power. Adolf Hitler, the well known Chancellor of Germany during World War II, and Regina George, the fictional Queen Bee from the movie Mean Girls, used similar tactics as a way to retain control. Although Adolf Hitler caused much more damage to the people he ruled over, Regina George and Adolf Hitler used tyrannical leadership tactics, the exile of innocent groups of people, and social status to control large populations. Adolf Hitler and Regina George similarly used oppressive and domineering strategies to gain popularity and relinquished any resistance. George used her socioeconomic status and charisma to become the …show more content…

Her mother desperately wanted to retain her youthfulness and, as a result, allowed Regina and her friends to have total control over her house (Mean Girls). Freedom was highly sought after by teenagers at North Shore High School, so the casual attitude Regina’s mother had toward underage drinking and sex caused Regina’s friend group to grow rapidly (Mean Girls). After George gained popularity, she controlled who was popular and who was less socially desirable. Hitler gained popularity in post-World War I Germany in the same way. Utilizing his superior speech delivering skills and the rapidly decaying German economy, he persuaded the entire German population that he was their saving grace. Germany’s economic situation plummeted after World War I because of the reparations the country paid, along with the disarmament of its military and cease on all military production (Garrison). Germany was desperate for help, …show more content…

Regina ostracized the less attractive and wealthy and almost immediately, everyone else agreed with her ruling. She had no other reason to exile these people than to gain popularity. Everyone simply accepted her judgements on other people because she was popular. Hitler arguably had more substance behind his anti-Semitic views. Anti-Semitism grew in popularity in Germany after many people blamed the Jews for the loss of World War I, so hating the Jewish people was not a new concept Hitler invented (Voigtländer). He did, however, utilize the anti-Semitic views already instilled in the German people to commit one of the largest mass genocides in the history of mankind. Both George and Hitler possessed masterful leadership qualities, though George had a more difficult task of controlling everyone at the high school. George had to create a reputation for herself before her opinion mattered to anyone. Hitler, on the other hand, used a previously instilled viewpoint of his constituents in order to gain the country’s

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