Question

When the british made a group of german civilians walk through a concentration camp at the end of world war ii, one german individual stated, "what terrible criminals these people must have been to receive such treatment." this comment is an example o?

Answer 1

The correct answer is Linguistic intergroup bias

This is a form of bias in which you reinforce and maintain a stereotype. The German group of civilians would not be able to accept that those people in the camp were innocent civilians and understood that they must have been criminals or done something bad to get such punishment. They couldn't comprehend that such bad things can happen to someone innocent.