Genocide In Germany

Genocide is one of the worst crimes against humanity and it still continues today. The definition of the word genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. Compared with war crimes and crimes against humanity, genocide is generally regarded as the most offensive crime. Unlike war, where the attack is general and the object is often the control of a geographical or political region. Genocide attacks go after an individual’s identity and the object is control, or complete elimination, of a group of people. The history of genocide in the 20th century includes the 1915 genocide of Armenians by

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 destruction of an ethnic, racial, or religious group. The most famous genocide, conducted by the Germans, is the extermination of the Jewish population known as the Holocaust. There are other genocides such as the Armenian or Darfur genocide, but the Holocaust is the one talked about and studied the most around the world today. Museums exist in Washington D.C, Los Angeles, and parts of Europe that focus primarily on this dark time in history. Vast amounts of books, movies, and documents concentrate on the Holocaust. Why is this chapter, between 1939 and 1945, discussed and examined? The answer lies within people who experienced the Holocaust such as Elie Wiesel, Jay Frankston, and Franks Shatz. These men have gone through hell and back, but they believe in one thing. That is, the notion of never again. The goal is to educate future generations on what really happened, so history does not repeat itself. Never again should people of any race, religion, or ethnicity, go through the horrific past of the Holocaust. In their writing, Wiesel, Frankston, and Shatz do a great job using pathos, logos, and ethos to convey their message of never again for future generations.

His intentions may have been admirable or respectable in wanting to create an equal agrarian society, but the ways that he carried out these plans are considered to be some of the worst human rights violations of the twentieth century. In order to create an agrarian society, Pol Pot forced all people in the city Phnom Penh, into the countryside and out of their homes, in what is known as Year Zero (“Khmer Rouge”). All non-agricultural workers were forced to leave their jobs and homes, and work in the countryside, to accomplish the goal of a country comprised of only workers. But, the majority of the population was not simply forced to leave their homes, and change their jobs. Hundreds of thousands of people were forced into slave labor camps and concentration camps, where they eventually died from starvation, exhaustion and disease. Eventually, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge turned to straight executions of first his former allies, and then of anyone who portrayed the former Cambodian society. It became a complete purge of anyone, citizen, enemy or even ally of Pol Pot, that did not show the new ideals of the Khmer Rouge. In the end, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge had executed hundreds of thousands, but had caused the death of over one million of his own people through labor camps, starvation, exhaustion and disease. Lastly, Pol Pot executed political, social, and ideological experiments on his

In the past 150 years, tens of millions of men, women and children have lost their lives to ethnic cleansing or genocide. Although the definition is often scrutinized, according to Merriam Webster, "Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political or cultural group". The most notable event associated with the term is the Holocaust. Stated by Judah Gribets, Edward Greenstein and Regina Stein, "nearly six million Jews fell victim to genocide during the years of the Holocaust". Of This number, one million were children who were unable to take care of themselves. People's hopes and dreams for the future were stripped from them, and many families were ripped apart. Many of these people were tortured or raped

Despite the comparable aspects of Adolf Hitler and Pol Pot's supremacies, each ruler had a different ideology that determined the motives behind their mass executions. Hitler was extensively anti-Semitist; he claimed that Jews were enemies of the Aryan race and held them responsible for Austria's crisis. Hitler's nationalism also fueled the Holocaust and the mass killings in general (Katz, 88). The Treaty of Versailles caused an immense amount of humiliation for Germany; there was a nearly total demilitarisation of the armed forces, allowing Germany only six battleships, no submarines, no air force, an army of 100,000 without conscription and no armored vehicles (Shirer, 95). He used the treaty as a reason to build up Germany so that it could never happen again. The Khmer Rouge, on the contrary, murdered Western educated intellectuals; this was not an act of direct hate or prejudice. Pol Pot firmly believed that he could "purify" society and create something he called "Year Zero" (The History Place - Genocide

In the spring and summer of 1939 the Nazis started to work on a plan to get rid of  children and infants  who were born with a handicap. There were several categories that defined a handicap.  One was mental disabilities which included schizophrenia, epilepsy, dementia, and other mental or neurological disorders.  There was another category for physical handicaps such

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.

“Any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”

In response to the video the Path to Nazi Genocide Adolf Hitler was deranged when the WWI was to blame by Germany. It affected the people and the economy of Germany. Depression and unemployment rates start to emerge in the country. People are killed in the streets and Adolf Hitler had to step in and change his people. He wrote a book Mein Kemp (My Struggle) his goals for Germany. The book talks about territorial expansion, strong racial state, and the elimination of all Jews. German people instantly love the book and agreed to what needs to be done in Germany. Hitler was not elected to office but was offered a deal. He controlled the Nazi party, the military, and the newsreel. In my opinion, Hitler is in control of these things, especially

What is genocide? Where did it come from? Most people living in the U.S. have little to know clue what genocide’s definition is. Some Americans miss use the word throwing it around lightly not knowing it origin. Genocide is a word that was created after the Holocaust by the United Nations. The creation of this word was intended to define the act of extermination of a country, ethnic, or religious group. It is a shame the creation of this word had to come into the world. In this paper I will address the many different for that genocide takes in today society.

Generally, when people first hear the word holocaust or genocide they immediately think of the Jewish holocaust during World War II. Ever since then people have said that another holocaust can never happen again, that it’s evil, disgusting, horrible and so on. However it has happened again, it’s happened again many times. Mass genocide was not eliminated in 1945 when Jews were liberated, it is still happening in our world all around us but just as during WWII people have looked the other way. Such as with the Cambodian Genocide that took place over a course of four years from 1975 until 1979.

Occurring from 1933 to 1945, the genocide in Europe is known as a tragic event in history (Nardo). The Holocaust changed the way the world viewed Europe. The mass murder of over six million Jewish people was lead by Adolf Hitler in the attempt to forge a superior nation.

The act of genocide is an extremity that accompanies the ever modernizing world, a reality that is increasingly discovered as the twentieth century inched toward the twenty-first. Cambodia, a country located in southeast Asia, is unlucky enough to have fallen under the terror of their own personalized war on humanity. A purpose whose plans took root in the quest for an egalitarian system, and thus purposefully began attacking its own economy. All the while destroying any constructs the Pol Pot regime felt may lead to a type of variety among the people, for there is safety in homogeneity. And so this culture suffered through extermination, whether that be in religion, music, or even in common family and friend relationships. Cambodia has been stripped of its individuality through each and every citizen for the sake of uniformity. When such a conflict as this, has finally come to an end it is undeniable that the process of rebuilding must commence. That reconstruction aimed toward all that has been destroyed: the economy, all types of infrastructure, a sense of community among the people. It is the responsibility of the country, as well as the developed outside world, to distribute aid toward this process. Far too often foreigners invade with their own objectives disguised as good will. Post-genocide Cambodia has for years received aid that was either, unable to meet it’s needs or not established long enough to make a significant or lasting difference. What is necessary is a

Extremists drive groups apart, hate groups broadcast propaganda, and laws forbid social interaction. By this stage genocide has most likely begun. When the polarization stage has taken full effect the governmental planning begins. National group leaders plan “The Final Solution”. These leaders often use euphemisms to disguise their intentions, such as referring to their goals as “ethnic cleansing”, “purification”, or “counter-terrorism”. Armies are built, weapons are bought, and the the troops are trained. The armies then proceed to persecute the targeted groups. Each victim is identified and separated by their ethnic or religious identity. Death lists are drawn up. Victims may be forced to wear an identifying symbol and many times their property is expropriated. The genocidal massacres begin and victims are segregated into concentration camps or confined to famine struck regions. Extermination begins, and quickly the mass killing can legally be called “genocide”. Sometimes the genocide results in revenge killings by groups against each other. The final stage of genocide is denial. It lasts throughout and always follows a genocide. The perpetrators of the genocide begin to dig up the mass graves, burn the bodies, and try to cover up the evidence and intimidate the witnesses. They deny that they have committed any crimes. Investigations of the crimes are blocked and they continue to govern until driven from power by force, then flee to