Armenian Genocide and Holocaust Comparison

Till this day, Turkey refuses to call this occurrence a genocide, speaking of the Armenian genocide is an offense punishable by imprisonment. In 2010, Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to deport 170,000 Armenians when a bill was proposed to recognize the Armenian genocide in Turkey.

Despite having a prominent amount of similarities, these genocides are also very unique. As gruesome as it is to think about, one of the main differences is the reason for extermination. In other words, why the people who were killed were killed. The Holocaust had somewhat of a regimented list or criteria that had to be met before they killed anyone. Most of the people killed were practicing Jews who Hitler believed to be holding the German culture back from progressing as a society. However it is less common knowledge that Hitler and the Nazis also persecuted gypsies, homosexuals, and anyone who didn’t fit his description of the perfect race. The perfect race to Hitler was deemed the Aryan race (blonde hair, blue eyes, and pale skin) and the purpose of the holocaust was to kill the Jews and anyone else who might prevent the Aryan race from prospering (“Holocaust”). In the Cambodian genocide, people were killed for a multitude of reasons. One being that they opposed Pot’s new communist approach to running the government. Another being that they

Genocide is cruel and. heartless. The Holocaust is an example of genocide. Millions of Jews, Gypsies, homos, and slavs were murdered in the Holocaust. There wasn't many survivors. When the United States of America found the survivors, they were liberated. Then the whole truth about the Holocaust came out.

The holocaust was a genocide that killed a lot of Jews. Over 6 million. The genocide started in January 30th, 1933 when Adolf Hitler can to be general of his army going 100000 deep. After eight years, in December of 1941 the USA jumped in after years of watching to help. Before the USA jumped in to help a little under 5 million Jews were killed. After four years of war and a million more Jews killed the genocide ended in may 8 1945. “There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust” (Fidel Castro).

The Holocaust is the undisputed genocide of all genocides, and it has been contended energetically by numerous students of history that no other dim period in mankind's history very thinks about to it. Albeit subjectively valid in a few perspectives, current students of history no longer need to depend on shades of obscurity keeping in mind the end goal to break down genocide.

During the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust, there was a lot of hate and discrimination. The Armenian Genocide and Holocaust were not just hate crimes, they were big mass killings towards the Armenian population and the Jewish population. People would show intolerance towards the Armenian people or Jewish people. Both Armenian and Jewish people were hated and used as scapegoats which ended in a big mass killing of the population.

The Holocaust was the extermination of Jews along with other groups by the Nazis under the leadership of Hitler. The Holocaust lasted from 1933 to 1945 and took the lives of about 6 million Jews as well as millions of others within other ethnic groups. This was nearly two-thirds of the European Jewish population. The Armenian genocide began in 1915 and ended in 1917. However, brutality to the Armenians did not cease until 1923.This genocide was the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman government under the power of the Young Turks. There were around 2 million Armenians living in the Ottoman empire before WWI. By the end of Armenian brutality in 1923, an estimated one and a half million Armenians had been slaughtered and only half a million Armenians were

6 million people died in the Holocaust during World War II. The Holocaust was harsh, brutal, and a very sad event where Nazi Germany captured and killed Jews in camps. The bombing of Pearl Harbor led to Japanese Americans getting put into camps because of their origin. All though both of these were concentration camps they were very different. The camps were different because the care of the people, the purpose and the aftermath was different.

The First Modern genocide was the Armenian Genocide, but what was the Armenian genocide? It was horrific acts committed against the Armenian people of the Ottoman Empire. The Armenian genocide was planned and administrated against the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire by the Turkish government. The Armenians were deported, starved, abducted, tortured and more. This devastating time lasted from 1915 through 1918. An estimated guess of around one and a half million Armenians

The first massacre occurred in 1894 to 1896, the second in 1909 and both resulted in the death of about 200,000 thousand Armenians.

The Holocaust was a mass murder of millions of individuals’ primary to and during World War II. “Only 54 percent of the people surveyed by the Anti- Defamation League (ADL) in a massive, global poll has ever heard of the Holocaust” (Wiener-Bronner). The Holocaust was from 1933-1945 and was run by German leader named Adolf Hitler. Hitler was a man who wanted to create his own race of people. Therefore to create this race, he wiped out anyone who did not have the specific descriptions that he wanted. For people to fit into his race, they had to have blue eyes and blond hair. This excluded the Jews and from then on Hitler slowly dehumanized them. In the concentration camp the first thing they had to pass was the selection test. The selection test was what the SS man (German soldiers) used to determine who was fit for work. Usually children, mothers, and elders were the first to die because they were not mentally fit for the work they were going to be given. People who passed the selection process either died of starvation, disease, fatigue, or assassination. It took twelve years before anyone intervened and by then it was too late for millions of people. Even though over twelve million people died during the Holocaust, genocides have still happened in Rwanda, Darfur and Cambodia.

Now one of the most kenned and prospering genocides was the holocaust which was the Nazi intention of killing lesser amount of 6 million Jews kindred, this was during world war 2. Another prominent genocide is Rwanda, where an estimated 500,000–1,000,000 Rwandans were tragically killed during the 100-day period from April 7 to mid-July 1994

The events that happened during the Armenian genocide was very disturbing as to why and how it happened. For the Armenians it was mainly the women and kids who were forced to be converted to islam. Another measure of the genocidal process is deleting all traces of the population who have been massacred or driven away by such deportations. Women were raped and sold in slave

Approximately one and a half million Armenians were killed from 1915-1923. The remaining part was either Islamized or exiled.” The Armenian Genocide was a horrific event that caused the Armenians to have a major loss in population. From this, the Armenians should have been given reparations, but were not and that still affects them to this day.

The Turkish government "permit[ed] religious minorities to maintain some autonomy, but they also subjected Armenians, who they viewed as “infidels,” to unequal and unjust treatment. For example Christians were forced to pay higher taxes than the Muslims and had very few political and legal rights" (History Channel Armenian Genocide). Many Armenians were forced into converting to Islam or were killed. In order for the Turkish government to eradicate the Armenians they needed to build their power across the Middle East and Asia. The "Turks disarmed the entire Armenian population...every last rifle and pistol was forcibly seized, with severe penalties for anyone who failed to turn in a weapon" inferring that the Armenians were second class citizens (Armenian Genocide). During the Holocaust the Nazi's used similar tactics of stripping the Jews of any personal items further solidifying the fact that Jews were worthless. The actual "decision to annihilate the entire population came directly from the ruling of the ultra-nationalist Young Turks. The extermination orders were transmitted in coded telegrams to all governors throughout the region" (Armenian Genocide). The Turks employed the use of starvation, death marches and firing squads that were utlized by the Nazi's during World War II and the Hutus during the Rwandan