Genocide During The Holocaust

The term genocide means terminate an entire race or group. In the Holocaust, millions of people were murdered by the Nazis under the order of Adolf Hitler. The main target during the Holocaust were Jewish people, or more specifically those who did not fit into the Aryan race (Adolf Hitler’s picture of how a person should be). Adolf Hitler and his army the Nazis tried to commit genocide by eradicating the Jewish race, but luckily they were not successful in doing so. The story “Terrible Things” by Eve Bunting and the poem “The Hangman” by Maurice Ogden show in very different ways a lot of the same themes about the Holocaust.

From the dawn of time to even now, genocides have been happening throughout history. Some earlier genocides have not even been recorded or documented. Genocides happen because one group wants complete control and absolute power of another. People can be killed for having different ideals or being different. Knowing this, one could see that genocides only end with senseless and brutal discrimination and death. From 1975 to 1979, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge carried out a genocide in Cambodia killing all people who seemed to oppose them and their communist government (“The Cambodian Genocide”).

Genocides are the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. They are completely inhumane acts that kill mass amounts of people in brutal ways for no absolute reason. There have been several genocides that have occured in human history. The most well-known and arguably the most brutal genocide was that of Jews from Natzi Germany. The holocaust was used as a slaughterhouse for Jewish people and those who were not apart of Hitler’s “master race”.

The Holocaust was one of the biggest organized massacres in human history; we even had to define such an event because it was unlike any other crime in history. Sadly, our modern era brings more genocides like the Holocaust. Genocides continue to happen today, like the Al-Anfal campaign. The Al-Anfal campaign was a genocide of the Kurdish people and, like most genocides, little or nothing was done to help. These modern day massacres create an imminent need of external interference. The U.N. can’t, and maybe won’t, stop genocide and all we can do is identify early warning signs and try to prevent them. Genocides are not something that can be resolved by themselves and we can see this in the Kurdish genocide. The Al-Anfal campaign is proof that something must be done to keep genocide from occurring.

“Why is the killing of 1 million a lesser crime then the killing of one

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.

Genocide is the mass killing of a national, racial, political, or cultural group. During World War II, Jews were blamed for the losses that Germany had by a man named Adolf Hitler. Hitler happened to be the leader of Germany, and the extremist group, the Nazis. Jews were punished and put in concentration camps and were eventually killed. Source A, or an excerpt from The Diary of Anne Frank, is about what Anne and the others of the Secret Annex suspect is happening to their Jewish friends. Source B is a website which shows the eight steps that lead to a genocide. Source C is apoem about not helping others and in the end being helpless. Finally, Source D is an allegory

The Genocide has been described as a mass killing of people. In which has been occurring since the early nineteenth century. This paper will explain the problems and severity of the Genocide in Germany compared to the Genocide against the Armenians. Like the Jewish, the Armenians also underwent the worst massacre in history. This dialogue goes into detail how the Jewish and the Armenians undergo the same treatment.

By definition, genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. The Rwandan Genocide was the 1994 mass killing of hundreds of thousands of Rwanda's Tutsis and Hutu political moderates by the Hutu dominated government under the Hutu Power ideals. Hutus believed the Tutsi were taking their jobs, and that they were foreigners who had worn out their welcome (Genocide-Rwanda). In comparison to Germany, the largest genocide in history, also known as the Holocaust, six million people were brutally murdered. This was because of religious and political opposition to the Nazi Regime, lead by Adolf Hitler from 1939 until late 1945 (Genocide-Holocaust). Hitler believed in a “pure

Genocide…it’s a scary thought and hard to imagine. How such a thing could happen? Not only does it involve the intentional and systematic annihilation of a race of people, but also the destruction of their personal property, security, religion, dignity, liberty, and life. Stop and consider it for a second. If it was happening to people around you, would you do anything to stop it? Could it happen again in today’s society? One might be quick to say it could not, but think about this.It has happened to many races of people many, many times throughout the history of mankind. In particular, The Jewish community has seen more than its share of persecution. Everyone thinks they know the basics on the Jewish Holocaust, but did you know that there

Tick Tock Tick Tock. The time goes by, every second intensifies the fear. A fear of being sent to the gas chamber, being starved to death, or being sent to concentration camps. Other Jews’ worst nightmare had come true as they were being squeezed between over 100 others in one cattle cart, on their death ride to the heavens. It was like playing cops and robbers, but to the extreme. “A genocide in which six million European Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, and the World War II collaborators with the Nazis.” This is the Holocaust. One of the darkest times in history, where the diversity of religion resulted in annihilation. Every Jew that the Nazis found were sent to concentration camps, starved to death and much more. While many

The Holocaust is a prime example of genocide. The Nazis sent their prisoners to concentration camps where they were denied food, forced to work ungodly hours and made to sleep in cramp insect-infested barracks. But before that the German people were forced to undergo test to make sure they were “German”. Then they ones who were different were separated and branded-like the Jewish Star of David. Later they were sent to ghettos. Eventually the prisoners were taken to concentration camps and tortured to death.

Genocide is the systematic mass murder of an ethnic, race, religious, or national group based on discriminatory preconceptions (Payne 33). The heart of genocide is destruction: the annihilation of minorities. Minorities have always been the scapegoat for most governments in times of crisis or when the government has been mismanaged. Minorities are even considered non-human. The annihilation of a specific target group does raise to question why and how this would be carried out. A genocide happens due to external and internal factors that contribute to target a specific group. Some external factors: colonialism exploitation and manipulation, post-colonial upheaval, high geographical isolation and low external reaction to internal genocide. Some internal factors: non-democratic government, toxic ideologies viewing minorities as threats, decline in state power and high levels of diversity (Kinloch). Genocides have made world headlines and have changed the ways the global communities approach this type of mass killing.

The word genocide, derived from the Greek roots genos (people) and cide (killing), did not enter the English language until 1944; the end of World War II. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the term means, “the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group.” Not everybody believes genocides continue to this day, other may have a different opinion or thoughts. Sometimes people don’t see the genocide they’ve created because they believe their methods are not causing any harm because they are not affected nearly as much as the people around them.. To be taken away from family, to be forced to live somewhere else, or to be killed can have a huge impact on life. Genocides play a huge role in the world

According to Merriam Webster’s dictionary, genocide is “the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group.” A Polish Jewish Lawyer, Raphael Lemkin, coined the term in the mid 1940’s after he escaped Nazi occupied Poland. (Kramer, Mark. “Genocide.”) Genocide can happen for many reasons. One possible cause for genocide is to spread terror and gain power and control. Another reason could be because of opposing views on religion and a desire to wipe out religious competitors. For example, under Hitler’s Germany, an estimated 6 million Jews were slaughtered because of their