...Sanjida Afrin Morality of Massacres and Genocide Prof. Harman Salton 2nd March, 2016 Nazi Memorandum The Holocaust was an extreme incident of genocide as defined by the UN Genocide Convention that took place in the 20th century in Germany as a religious, political and economical manifesto targeting an ethnic, national or racial group such as the Jews. The plot of this heinous genocide however started back in the 1930 before the WWII when Hitler and the Nazis started spreading propagandas to wipe out Jews from Germany. This memo will give a critical overview on the purposes behind the holocaust, how propaganda were used to conduct such extreme genocide and the role played by the Nazis and the Germans, followed by a brief comparison between the genocide in different countries and the Holocaust. When we start talking about Holocaust, one of the basic terms to use is “Anti-Semitism” which refers to hatred against the Jews. Even though factual evidences hold Hitler’s strong hatred towards the Jewish population as a major reason behind the holocaust, it is still a debatable issue. One of the most interesting facts that come to attention is the wide support of many of the educated German elites in the Nazi propaganda. This might be result of the flourishing economic conditions of the Jews in the then Germany. The Jews were open to modern education, they flourished in business and basically not as much affected as the Germans after the WWI. This might have led to economic and political...
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...(Mohandas Gandhi). If only our world leaders knew this sooner. Genocide is the act of killing a large mass of people for no valid reason. The Holocaust was a genocide where the Nazi Germans tried to eliminate the Jews from Germany from 1939-1945. The Nazi Germans believed that the Jews were the reason Germany lost World War 1 and wanted them to pay for what they did. The Armenian genocide was where the Turkish people in the Ottoman Empire desired a homogenous Turkish state and wanted to get rid of the Armenians from 1915-1918. Although the Holocaust and the Armenian genocide are similar in their horrible dehumanization and unjust polarization stages, each genocide exterminated its people differently....
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...Genocide is the deliberate murder or killing of a large group of people (“Genocide”). First, genocides are quite particular, and follow the same trend. They are usually associated with those of a different ethnicity or race (“Genocide”). So, those who are “different” are often targeted and killed during genocide. Next, genocide can do many horrible things to people. It takes away people's qualities, and deprives them of many things necessary for life (Stanton). Hence, people can really be changed and affected by genocide. Finally, genocide can be brought about or defined in many ways. Killing members of a group, causing serious harm, inflicting on conditions of life, preventing births, or forcibly transferring children of the group (“Genocide Fast Facts). In conclusion, genocide can be identified in several horrific ways. Therefore, because of genocide people have suffered many negative effects....
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...For the book review assignment, I chose to read “Crime and Human Punishment: Criminology of Genocide and Atrocities”. I chose this book, because the study of genocide is interesting to me, in learning about why it happens and how to stop it from happening in the future. In regards to the essay, it is going to be broken into three different parts. The first part, which is planned to be about half of the essay, will talk about some about a couple of the major themes of the book. The second part will consist of showing how the book is tied to content we have learned in class. And to wrap up the paper, I will talk about some of the strengths and weaknesses of the book. The first major theme I am going to talk about is the criminology of genocide...
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...know Raphael Lemkin created a word to describe the Nazi’s way of killing the Jewish people, by using the ancient Greek word genos, (which means race and tribe) and the word Latin cide, (which means killing)? IT WAS GENOCIDE! Raphael Lemkin created the word Genocide because he lost his family in the Holocaust. Genocide is a mass murder that develop in ten stages: classification, symbolization, discrimination, dehumanization,...
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...World War II: Hitler’s Jewish Genocide It is regarded as the most widespread and deadliest conflict in human history, killing more than 50 million people. World War II was the largest armed conflict in history, spanning the entire world, and involving more countries than any other war. The war has been generally believed to start on September 1, 1939 and lasting until September 2, 1945. Historians are still arguing about the exact cause of World War II, however the common belief of fault resides on the implementation of Adolf Hitler. Hitler was possessed by a passionate set of ideals to expand Germany, and with his election as German chancellor in January 1933, marked the start of an accelerating progression towards world war. Under the dominion of Hitlers ambitions, Germany invaded western Poland as a result of the intransigence between both countries. World War II ravaged civilians more severely than any previous conflict, and served as the justification for genocidal killings by Nazi Germany, under the order of Hitler. To fully understand how Hitler attained the support of a nation to agree with his ideology, one must know the conditions before the wake of World War II, and how Hitler instilled influential ideas of national pride. In this essay, I intend on showing why it is important to understand a certain aspect of World War II. I will first focus on establishing the importance of knowing what events led Germany into the circumstances it was in prior to...
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...Genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. One of the most commonly referred to and widely known genocide is the Holocaust, but this is not the only genocide. There are many different genocides that have gone on throughout the course of history, all of which could have been prevented. One of these is a 21st century genocide going on in the Sudanese region to this day. This paper will describe the genocide in Darfur, compare it to the Holocaust and discuss not only how it can be ended but how future genocides can be prevented. 6 million citizens reside in Darfur is a region in western Sudan that was created in 1956 (“Darfur Genocide”). There has been distrust between...
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...History 101 Mrs. Connors April 6 2018 Genocide History repeats itself, sometimes it is inevitable for it to happen. History will always hold a place for Tragedy and sadness. It is something that may affect millions of people. Which in times we look back only to see the inhumane actions committed by the people who we see as evil and malicious. The very people who stood strongly for their ideology. Genocide, perhaps the most disturbing and atrocious acts a human being can ever commit, yet so many times it occurs. The Holocaust is perhaps the most well known genocide to this day; but we must not forget that the Native Americans also experienced their tragedy and sadness. Both the Jews and the Native Americans were not wanted....
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...As the Genocide Convention of 1951 states, the twentieth century was named the “century of genocide” because of the high number of genocides during that time period. They also state that genocide is a mass slaughter with the intent to destroy/exterminate, in a whole or a part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group of people. For the main purpose of this presentation, the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide and the Armenian genocide will be the three genocides of the 20th century that will help determine the causes of modern genocide by investigating these three events as case studies. There are various reasons why genocide has occurred and it is mostly due to a combination of circumstances that leads to genocide. This presentation will...
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...outrage. These reactions to race can cause extreme divisions not only in our country but also our world resulting in prejudice and discrimination. There have been multiple events throughout history in which discrimination lead to widespread death. Prominent examples include the genocides of the Armenians, the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, and most recently, the Darfur genocide. While it may be hard to imagine that one group of people could find themselves so...
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...remove this darkness from one of the most tragic events to ever happen in history, the Holocaust. There is a classic German legend about a man named Faust. He was a highly successful scholar but was dissatisfied with his life. His legend has created stories of his success in art and music, but the legendary of this man doesn’t end there. According to the legend, Faust sold his soul to the devil in exchange for vast earthly rewards. Millions of innocent Jews were killed by this so called legend, driven by a force of madness and evil of his own ancestors. In his own sick twisted mind he saw an opportunity to solve the problem once and for all by killing off the Jews. It is said that the Holocaust was based upon vague, trivial, or even inaccurate representations. With so much controversy and doubt on the Holocaust did or did it not really happen, everyone has their own point-of-view. Ironically for the people of Germany this legend had an all too real comparison to true events on its history. According to stories from survivors the voices of the dead can still be heard crying out for help. There are many authors who wrote books with great detail on the Holocaust, giving their perspective point of view on this tragic event. During the Holocaust it is said that over six million Jews suffered countless amounts of obscenity throughout the history of time. In the book Histories of the Holocaust by Dan Stone, the author describes the legendary of one man, the will to survive, the...
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...species to go out of their way to bring as much violence as they can to the world the violence of human is shown through the numerous Genocides that have happened all over for the past couple of centuries, The constant...
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...Armenian Genocide 1. Armenia was under the rule of the Ottoman Empire and they were mostly Muslim. Christians had fewer political and legal rights compared to the Muslims, but Armenia was still successful. Turkey did not like the success, and in 1908, a new government came to rule Turkey, called the “Young Turks.” The Young Turks wanted to get rid of the Armenian population, which were Muslim and Christian, and make another government, so the genocide started on April 24, 1915. The Young Turks wanted to “Turkify” the Ottoman Empire. 2. The Armenian Genocide involved the Ottoman Empire and the Young Turks (who were trying to eliminate the Ottoman Empire). The genocide also involved the Allied Powers (Great Britain, France, and Russia), and the United States. The Allied Powers warned the Young Turks that they would be responsible for this crime to kill the Ottomans. The United States’ citizens did know about the genocide, and there was a strong outcry, but these four countries did not really do anything. 3. The genocide fighting stopped in the September of 1918. The Treaty of Sevres was made so the Central Powers could sign to show defeat of WWI. It also marked the beginning of the total annihilation of the Ottoman Empire, and that all non-Turkish land that...
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...Alexia Gonzalez Political Science 4823: The Holocaust/ the Shoah Final Paper December 12, 2013 The Comparative Analysis of the Holocaust Ethnic cleansing and genocide are considered to coexist in a spectrum of assaults on nations or religio-ethnic groups. These threats were more prominent during the 20th century which caused massive violations of human rights and jeopardized the overall security of humans. Determinants of ethnic cleansing and genocide root from socio-political factors influenced by deeply embedded ideologies which are manifested by political leaders of specific regime types. During World War II, German authorities targeted Jews and other minority groups like the gypsies and Pols due to their perceived racial inferiority. The German ideology in attempt to eradicate these auxiliary groups led to the conflict known as the Shoah. The Shoah is the biblical word meaning destruction and it is the standard Hebrew term for the murder of European Jewry. The Shoah was the systematic, bureaucratic and state sponsored persecution of six million Jews. Comparable to other ethnic based genocides, Germans believed they were racially superior and that Jews were inferior; and deemed a threat to the “German racial community” resulting in their mass murder. Various interpretations of the Shoah has given rise to similar attitudes and opinions regarding its historical events. The Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, is one of the largest resources of its kind which includes...
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...There has been many different genocides around the world, but the ones that will be compared and contrasted in the article today are the Holocaust and the Killing Fields of the Khmer Rouge. The people were killed in different ways. There was different punishments used during these genocides. The conditions of the work/concentration camps were brutal. The genocide was eventually ended due to the armed forces of other countries. Even though these genocides may seem completely different, they have their similarities as well a their differences. The genocide both had their own way of killing those involved. Under the Khmer Rouge, the adults were killed by kneeling over a pre-dug grave and would get hit in the back of the head with a steel axle rod (Buncombe). Children were killed by having their heads smashed against a tree trunks (Buncombe). In the holocaust, the victims would be shot if they fell behind when they were going from one camp to another (Wiesel 77). They would be burned alive inside crematories (30-31). This how Pol Pot of the Khmer Rouge and Adolf Hitler of the Nazi Party had their victims killed....
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