Genocide in Human History Compared to Unwound Genocide is the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group. Genocide has been a prominent part of human history and changed the course of the world multiple times, creating wars and tearing down governments that had been corrupt. Usually occurring in places where people need a sense of leadership or change, the first recorded genocide was the annihilation of the inhabitants of an island called Melos which was attacked by the Athenian army in 416 BCE. Moreover, in the 20th century alone there were seventeen different genocides that were conducted by various groups and power players.
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To begin with, the Nazi party came into power of the German government in January, 1933. Over multiple years, Hitler manipulated the German citizens into believing that he would be followed unrivaled and that he was a superior being. In “The introduction to the Holocaust”, it states that “The Nazis believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community.” So, when he gained complete control and worked his way into a dictatorship, Hitler then decided to do something about the jewish population since he would not be questioned by the citizens of Germany. While he targeted the jewish people, he also aimed hate toward Roma (Gypsies), the disabled, and some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others). Other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and …show more content…
On page eleven, Connor says “Situations got him labels like ‘troubled’ and ‘at risk’ and finally this last label, ‘unwind’.” Which means that kids who act poorly or get labeled as bad kids, are the teens targeted to be unwound. Also, there was a such thing as tithing, the tithes are given up to be unwound as a gesture to god. In Unwind, Shusterman has Lev’s parents told him “He was a true tithe… and that made him all the more special.” on page 32. Taken as being unwound is a good thing for him and that he is being a great person for having his life taken from
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Starting in 20th century, there …show more content…
To begin with, the Nazi party came into power of the German government in January, 1933. Over multiple years, Hitler manipulated the German citizens into believing that he would be followed unrivaled and that he was a superior being. In “The introduction to the Holocaust”, it states that “The Nazis believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community.” So, when he gained complete control and worked his way into a dictatorship, Hitler then decided to do something about the jewish population since he would not be questioned by the citizens of Germany. While he targeted the jewish people, he also aimed hate toward Roma (Gypsies), the disabled, and some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others). Other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and …show more content…
On page eleven, Connor says “Situations got him labels like ‘troubled’ and ‘at risk’ and finally this last label, ‘unwind’.” Which means that kids who act poorly or get labeled as bad kids, are the teens targeted to be unwound. Also, there was a such thing as tithing, the tithes are given up to be unwound as a gesture to god. In Unwind, Shusterman has Lev’s parents told him “He was a true tithe… and that made him all the more special.” on page 32. Taken as being unwound is a good thing for him and that he is being a great person for having his life taken from