The Syrian Genocide

Anti-semitism, which is defined to be the hatred of Jews, played a major part in our world history, such as the Holocaust. The Nazis believed that the Jewish community was inferior to their own race, and wanted to get rid of them for good. Initially in the early 1930’s, Adolf Hitler conducted one of the worlds now largest genocides, the annihilation of the Jews during WWII. Nealy six million Jews died during the span of twelve years, which was ⅔ of the Jewish population in Europe, and he was able to do so using the four stages of isolation. Those of which, were the stripping of rights, segregation, concentration, and extermination. The stripping of rights was taking away the Jewish men and women's basic needs, stripping them of their German citizenships, forcing them to wear an armband of the star of David, and etc. The second stage of isolation was segregation. The Jews were kicked out of the comfort of their own homes, and were forced to live in an isolated area called the “ghettos”. The third stage was concentration. After a couple of months from being moved to the ghettos, the Jews were brought to concentration camps where they were forced to work for hours at a time under all conditions, they were starved and all were mistreated. The last stage of isolation is the extermination, which was the stage in which the Jews were killed. The Nazis used different methods to do so, many were shot, beaten to death, burnt alive, but most were brought into gas chambers where they were gassed with Zyklon b which killed all within 3-15 mins of inhalation. There was not much of an option for the Jews their only chance of making it out alive is by figuring out various tactics to survive. Surviving meant that they had to live within a grueling environment, despite the difficult circumstances. Regardless of all the hardships they faced during that time, they were able to survive and overcome them by using different strategies, such as trading with one another, using their skills, and made friendships and built allies with one another in the camps.

Because Hitler inhabited most of Germany with his camps and army so that his genocide would be successful, the Jewish people that got the chance to escape ran to places like Poland and other parts of Europe. (GOTTFRIED 3) This brought destruction down upon their places of refuge. Many countries protected their boarders so that Jewish people could not seek shelter in their homeland and bring death and destruction to their country. (GOTTFRIED 4) Hitler created a bad reputation that followed the Jewish people wherever they went, and some

Before the start of the second word war, the Jews of Germany were excluded from public life, forbidden to have sexual relations with non-Jews, boycotted, beaten but aloud to immigrate. When the war was officially declared, immigration ended and 'the final solution to the Jewish problem' came. When Germany took over Poland, the polish and German Jews were forced into over crowed gettos and employed as slave labor. The Jewish property was seized. Disease and starvation filled the gettos. Finally, the Jews were taken to concentration camps in Poland and Germany where they were murdered and killed in poisonous gas chambers in Auschwitz and many other camps despite the harsh treatment of the Jews, not many German people opposed this.

For the 12 years the Nazi ruled Germany and they condemned the Jews to death and there was no escape. At every stage of the war, the Germans used their military superiority to crush and terrorize the Jews.

The United Nations has described it as "the world's worst humanitarian crisis". As of 2003, the Darfur genocide is being carried out by the Sudanese armed forces and funded Arab militias known as the Janjaweed. These militias are historic rivals of the rebel groups known as the Sudanese Liberation Movement (SLM), and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM). Darfur is a region in western Sudan on the border of Chad, Libya, and the Central African Republic. Darfur is estimated to have about 6 million people living there. The conflict started in 2003 and has continued through today. The Janjaweed were accused of oppressing Darfur's non-Arab population. The Janjaweed are destroying Darfurians by burning villages, polluting water, murdering, raping

Once hitler rose to power and became a dictator, he began his extinction of jews by segregating them and forcing them to live in separate sections of the city called ghetto’s. Nazi’s would watch over them and make sure none of them could escape or try to leave the country. As jews were being mistreated, camps were being built for the jews to

On September 1, 1939 war broke out after Germany invaded Poland. The harsh act led to many more invasions and battles. During the holocaust, Germany moved Jews by the thousands to concentration camps all throughout Germany. These camps tortured Jews in different ways such as gas chambers, hanged them, and burned them alive in large groups. In total, Hitler and his followers killed 11 million people. 6 million of them Jewish and 1 million children(Wikipedia). Jews were trying to flee from the country. Some were able to aboard the SS St. Louis. Captain, Gustav Schröder stepped up to get refugees to safety in another country. This was one of many ways Jews escaped the country.

The Iraq Genocide was an action of slaughter against the Kurdish individuals , because Ali Hussain was the President's cousin did not want the Kurdish to have their own rebellion or them to have land and independence for themselves. This Genocide was the presidents mistake and his cousins fault for selfish reasons against the kurds

The Nazi party was anti-Semitic, against Jews, and in 1941 with the “final solution plan” the Jews began to be chased by the Gestapo, Hitler secret police, with the objective of killing all the European Jews. This could result strange to everyone because there is no reason for killing them at least we do not see that reason but the Germans did and they saw the Jewish as the guilty of everything that was wrong in the country so the solution was to send them to gethos, Jewish neighborhoods, and then pick them up with the train of the death which final stop were the labor camps were they were killed in many horrible ways. Although before this plan the Jewish were already being persecuted an example of this is “the night of the broken glasses “where In two days, over 250 synagogues were burned, over 7,000 Jewish businesses were trashed and looted, dozens of Jewish people were killed, and Jewish cemeteries, hospitals, schools, and homes were looted while police and fire brigades stood by because a German general was killed in Paris.

The War in the Darfur region of Sudan has occurred since February of 2003. The Sudanese Liberation Movement (SLM) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) are rebel groups that revolted against the Sudanese government, producing a civil war throughout Darfur. The direct result of which is the first genocide of the 21st century, and more specifically, genocide through governmental disregard.

Creating relations between races and ethnicity's has always been vital to the success of the world. The United States and the international community have been, more often than not, late to stop violent acts against humanity. It took decades after the United Nations was created, and after a horrendous genocide in Rwanda, for the International Criminal Court to be created. Despite these two establishments created for international peace and security, crimes against humans rights are still occurring.When human rights are being violated, it is necessary for the U.S. and its allies to intervene in ethnic conflicts. While others may say humanitarian intervention goes against a state’s sovereign authority,it is necessary to protect

A detailed and objective description of the human rights issues presented in this week’s readings is genocide of Sudan. Genocide is the intentions to harm a society’s of their existence. The word genocide goes back to biblical days. The Old Testament of the King James Bible, in general the first five books, depict God as “a despotic and capricious sadist, and his followers as eager genocidaires (genocidal killers) (Jones, 2006). There is many instances of the use of the word Genocide in the history books that dates back to 1490. The Zulu kingdom, between 1810 and 1828, under Shaka Zulu attacked what is now a large part of present-day South Africa and Zimbabwe (Jones, 2006). Zulu army’s mission was defeating and causing destruction to his enemies.

Before the Holocaust, people began viewing Jews differently. The German government decided to make “camps” for the Jews to keep them away from the other people in the community. These places were called Jewish Ghettos, where the government placed all the Jews to live. The people in the Ghettos were very upset with this change and one man said, “ We have entered into a new life, we are separated from the world and driven out of society, and the human race,” (Facing History 2). All of the Jews were forced to leave their homes and move to these Ghettos. They had guards all around them and barbed wire fences. In conclusion, the Jews were forced into the horrible places where they weren't allowed to leave.

The survivors of the concentration camps were traumatized by the experience and many of them were too scared to go back home. They knew that many people were still anti-Semitists and thought that if they went home, the Holocaust might repeat itself. Tens of thousands of holocaust survivors migrated to other European nations and lived in refugee centers. Jewish agencies such as the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee gave the survivors food and clothing. All around the world, people were trying to help the survivors get back on their feet but there was no way the survivors would ever be the same person they were before the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a truly horrendous event that showed the world how truly dangerous genocide could be.

Throughout the 1930’s-1940’s, Jewish Germans became refugees because Adolf Hitler constantly blamed the Jewish for the problems associated with economics in Germany, increasing legal repression and physical violence but most importantly because other countries were willing to take in Jewish immigrants. The Nazis have attempted to prevent Jewish Germans from fleeing Germany by imposing a ridiculously heavy emigration tax, and also by limiting the amount of money that can be transferred from their banks in Germany, to in another country.