Harper Lee uses allusion to reference and give further understanding of the current time by talking about Hitler and Jews in Nazi Germany. The hypocrisy of the white community is that they are feeling sympathy for the Jews yet discrimanting against the black people.

This means that both the Jewish and the black people of maycomb can be juxtaposed to each other and also referred to as mockingbirds.

“Jews are the best people in the world and I don’t get how Hitler doesn’t realise” is a quote stated by a white person from maycomb, this is satirising the event.