Genocide Compare And Contrast Essay

The United Nations defines genocide as “acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.” Despite the term being made legitimate in the last century the brutal practice has shaped our known history. For my purpose I will narrow my focus to three of these crimes against humanity that took place in the twentieth century: The Armenian Genocide, The Holocaust, and the Rwandan Genocide. By outlining the causes of each atrocity, as well as the actions that took place as a result of these causes, I will be able to compare and contrast aspects of each genocide with the others.
The Armenian Genocide took place during World War I when the Ottoman Empire’s government sought to systematically rid the nation of the Armenian people. In 1913, A nationalist political group at the time which referred to themselves as the “Young Turks” took total control of the government and sought to reform the country in a religious and militant way. The goal of the leaders of the Empire was to expand eastward. Propaganda was used to win the alliance of the non-Armenian citizens and turn them against the …show more content…
Hitler orchestrated the discrimination of the Jewish people by relying heavily on Propaganda. Hitler and his propaganda blamed the Jews for the loss of World War I and the collapse of the German economy. At the same time Hitler asserted his belief in an Aryan “master race” which was coincidentally opposite of the Jewish ethnicity. Hitler claimed that the Jewish people were responsible for the oppression of this master race. He used these claims as the basis of the Propaganda and the majority of the German population which fell under the Aryan mold saw Hitler and his ideas as their ticket out of the economic disaster they faced as a result of World War