In today story is about "comparing the Holocaust to Armenia". Today I'll be talking about comparing the holocaust to Armenia. First, I'll be talking about aggressor and target group. Second, I'll be talking about what actually occurred. Final, I'll be talking about what were the outcome of the Holocaust.…
Whereas, an estimated 11 million lives were lost in the Holocaust. An astonishing 9 million difference! The Armenians were murdered because of their Christianity while the Jews and other groups were killed because of their inferiority to the Aryan race. The Armenian genocide transpired during World War I , specifically between April 1915-1917. However, the Holocaust occurred during World War II, specifically between 1933-1945.…
Most people have never wondered what was going through the minds of the people that witnessed the mass murder and rape of these women around them...or the women it happened to. The Rape of Nanjing was unexpected and uncalled for. It is much like how the Jews that were harshly punished because of their religion. People today like to take the past and see it as only that. Others like to make jokes of it to make it seem less real.…
Genocide in the holocaust was made possible by the fact that the Nazis created a set mind set in people 's heads that they are superior compared to the Jews, disabled, gay and other minorities at the time. During the holocaust the Nazis were focused on separating the Jews from the non Jews. Nazis created a mindset in non Jew children in germany that they are superior than that of the Jew children to eliminate the Jews as seen in the book parallel journeys. “No German boy can ever be true friends with a Jew boy. No matter how nice he seems, he 'll grow up to be your enemy.”…
The horrible events that took place during the Holocaust are hard to match. Some may say that it is the worst genocide in human history. But there is one thing that we can all agree on: the Holocaust definitely wasn 't the first genocide. Similar techniques and prejudices can be found in history before the Holocaust. These can be found most notably in the Armenian Genocide.…
Armenian Genocide " Who, after all, speaks of the annihilation of the Armenians?" Hitler once said this when addressing the Nazi army about the upcoming genocide of millions of Jews. A genocide is the systematic killing of a group of people based on religion, race, or culture. Genocides are crucial to our past, as well as crucial to our future.…
Both the Holocaust, and Rwandan Genocide targeted a minority, which is a recurring theme among mass killings, and massacres. During the Holocaust primarily Jewish were killed, who only made up a small portion of Europe’s population. The Rwandan Genocide targeted the Tutsis, also a minority who held a small 14% of the population, compared to the Hulu’s 85% (BBC News: 100 Days of Slaughter, 2017). In both cases boundaries between differentiating parties were clearly drawn. Over time, the separation between both groups brewed into hatred for each other.…
Tolerance is being able to understand and put up with another's beliefs or ideas, even if you don't always agree. Have you ever been placed in situation like this? Many people have, including famous people in history like Anne Frank and Adolf Hitler. Another situation like this was the Holocaust in Cambodia. Not many people are aware about this.…
Almost 3 million dead. 80% of children orphaned. In pursuit of what was seen as the “greater good”, Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge destroyed the country and, in only 30 years, left scars that may never heal. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were motivated to commit the Cambodian Genocide because of Pol Pot’s desire to create an anti-individualist communist utopia and because of his government officials' need to preserve their power through any means necessary. Pol Pot’s Ideology Pol Pot learned of marxism when he was working in France during the 60’s.…
The U.S. being at war with Vietnam caused Cambodia to get involved when they didn’t ask for it. The U.S. sent food to the civilians of Cambodia, but the hard-headed KR did not want any help from and outsiders or any other nation. Having no food or nourishment meant that it was much easier to kill all the deportees, or enemies of the people. They led all them on death marches, knowing that they would not be able to survive, the KR killed about 400,000 victims, just on these marches (292). The Vietnamese were also the reason the genocide was brought to an end.…
The Armenian people and the Jewish people were both involved in a genocide based on prejudice, with the intent to completely wipe out their race. The Nazi’s and The Turkish people were responsible for the Genocide of these two groups. The Nazis carried out one of the most notorious crimes in history, The Holocaust. They killed countless minorities but specifically targeted the Jewish. During World War 1, The Ottoman Empire was having a lot of turmoil between the two main ethnicities in the country, The Turks and The Armenians.…
The Cambodian Genocide was a genocide supported by the Khmer Rouge (Red Khmer, Khmer language; or red Cambodia, representing Communism) after they overtook the government, as they labeled this genocide as a “Re-Education Program” for anyone that did not agree with their politics, as their re-education was working in forced labor camps, or if they could not do that kind of work, being killed on the spot. The Cambodian genocide was a genocide only targeting the people of Cambodia. Genocide was a factor of the Communist overtake of Cambodia, because there is no differing opinion if there is no one to provide one, right? the Cambodian people with “Bad Ideas” were placed in concentration camps that actually looked similar the ghettos…
One of the largest and most important stages of genocide is dehumanization, and many of the events and aspects of the Cambodian genocide align with the aspects of this stage. During dehumanization, one group begins to deny the humanity of another group. In turn, this allows the group to disparage the victims and progress towards the eventual extermination. Hate propaganda also begins to emerge. The Khmer Rouge believed that only “pure” people were qualified to build the revolution, and targeted minorities and intellectuals and defined them as “impure.”…
"We must ALWAYS take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. " - Elie Wiese, Noble Peace Prize Winner and Jewish Holocaust Survivor I agree with the quote above because by staying neutral we don 't stand up for what we believe in.…
While the Khmer Rouge was in power, they set up policies that ignored human life and produced massive massacres. Cambodia later became a place where nearly two million people died, including family members. The perpetrator was the Khmer Rouge. They forced around two million people in Phnom Penh and other cities into the countryside to handle agricultural work (Cambodia Tribunal Monitor). People who refused to leave, didn’t leave fast enough, and those who didn’t obey the orders were killed.…