Genocide And Holocaust Similarities

Genocides are classified by an eight stage process that explains the causes and identifying factors of a genocide. Both the Holocaust and Holodomor are prime examples of genocides, and although the eight stages of genocide are shown through both, they were implemented differently in some aspects. The Holodomor, a genocide in the 1930’s targeting Ukrainians, was similar to the Holocaust through the stages of classification, organization, polarization, and denial, but different in the ways of preparation, extermination, dehumanization, and symbolism.

Most people in the world never seem to realize the mass number of raping or killings that are going on around them. Meanwhile, during the holocaust, no one understood how much it was happening around them then either, except for the people it was happening to. Most people are aware of the savagery that occurred during the holocaust in Germany, but few have ever even heard of Nanjing, much less the rape of Nanjing. Both genocides share very close similarities, and they both also share their differences.

The blood of thousands of murdered Tutsi people ran through the streets of Rwanda on April 7, 1994. Until mid-July of 1994, Hutu supremacists eradicated thousands of Tutsi. Nearly fifty years prior, Nazis claimed the lives of millions of Jews. Within the years that followed, the Nazi forces slaughtered millions of Jewish citizens across Europe. Both massacred by people they once considered friends and coworkers, Tutsi and Jews faced great injustice, but those are not the only similarities between the two genocides. It is evident that during both the Holocaust and the Rwandan Genocide, the rest of society turned a blind eye to the horrors that both Tutsi and Jews were facing, only kept their best interest in mind, and that both groups faced

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.

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.

Although the Rwandan genocide and the holocaust began because of social tension, the Nazis were manipulated into their anti-semitism, whereas the Hutu and Tutsi had tension long before the killing started. During the holocaust, Nazis drove a wedge in between Jews and other races in

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.

Now we must to discuss the main distinctions between the two events so we can understand them. 1st, they were in two different countries at two different times in history as well as commenced for different reasons. 2nd, they were for different country type reasons, as Hitler's demands could have been optically discerned as imperialism, while  Rwanda regimes approach was to climate anyone opposing them and the minority races.

All around us people are being discriminated for what they look or act like, the color of their skin, religion, and language. During the civil rights movement the citizens of the United States were fighting over equality.Unfortunately, a few people might have said they didn’t want African Americans in their country and that opinion spread to other people and the world of the African Americans was completely turned upside down. There is a similar story sorta like the civil rights movement and it was called the Holocaust. The Holocaust was where at one point the Jewish religion was considered “racist” and needed to be treated differently from other religions. Although, the holocaust and the civil rights movement based around two different groups of people and what happened to those people both talk about discrimination of both groups.

The Holocaust and the more recent Rwandan genocide were both events filled with inhumane cruelties and destruction. The Holocaust was led by Adolf Hitler who believed in the extermination of Jews, while also promoting the invincibility of the Aryan race. Similarly, the Hutus attempted to end the Tutsi race over a span of about 100 days. The Holocaust and Rwandan killings both had similarities as to how and who started them, their torture techniques used, the usage of scapegoats, and how the world reacted to these horrible events.

It was a major decrease to the Jewish population. There was an estimated 1.5 million Jewish children were killed during this crisis. So the Natzis had no mercy at all for anyone. And during the trail of tears 4000 Cherokees died. Which was a major decrease to their population as well. Most of the Cherokees actually died due to the cold weather and dehydration. Lots of them were killed by being beat or shot. And most women were raped. And then beaten to death. Also lots of the Cherokees killed themselvwalk that most of them died. Lots of them were beaten to death on their long journey or starved to death. The women were raped and beaten to death. Some of the cherokees even froze to death. Lots of them died of dehydration.

During the Holocaust, almost all of the killing was done by gas chambers. Other people were shot and killed, starved or worked to death and even trampled in stampedes. However in the Rwandan Genocide, historians say the people were killed with machetes, guns, and other hand held tools/objects. Despite the many differences between the two genocides, there is one major similarity. Although times have changed, genocide hasn’t.

Although these two occurrences were in entirely different time periods, the two had many similarities. Structure, the framework for everything on earth, defined as arrangement of parts , the two circumstances at hand both had similar timelines of how they transpired. Chronologically the basis

The killing was not as organized in Rwanda. Hutu militia spread throughout the country, executing Tutsi families with machetes, guns and clubs. The radio controlled by Hutus broadcasted the exact locations of Tutsis in hiding, and further encouraged the killing. In some villages, Hutu militia would force other Hutus to kill Tutsis in their neighborhood, or be killed themselves. Tutsis were also forced to kill their families.

Genocide is a term that can be defined as a planned and systematic destruction of whole or parts of certain national, religious, race, ethnic, cultural or political group (Akhavan 21). Genocide is deliberated with a different set of actions for a purpose to destroy an essential foundation of life. Genocide is characterized with the massive killing of members of a group, causing mental or bodily injuries to a group of people, imposing mechanisms to prevent birth, removing particular group children and putting conditions of life in order to bring to an end existence of a particular group. Therefore, genocide is an illegal action and a crime recognized and punishable by international law (Charmy 35). For instance, Rwanda genocide is characterized by ethnic tensions within the country. Initially the definition of the term genocide as by genocide convection only comprised of racial, ethnic, national and religious groups. They argued that inclusion of other groups cannot strengthen but rather weakens it. This definition failed to recognize other groups such as political groups, economic and cultural groups that are essential elements of genocide. Genocide therefore, is generally considered the worst moral crime the ruling authority can commit against those it controls Naimark (2017).