The 1900’s was a hard time for the world to grasp. There were terrible events happening around the world, such as The Holocaust and The Cambodian Killing. Adolf Hitler, born in Austria, 1889, was one of the main, well-known antics of The Holocaust. He showed signs of rebellion at a young age and also left all forms of education in 1905 to pursue his dreams of being a famous artist. His failure at being an artist led him to a state of depression. His state of depression led him to become fascinated with the thought of control. He then began to show an interest in Anti-Semitism. His passionate love for Anti-Semitism is what would later lead to the disastrous events to come. Pol Pot, born in 1925 to the small village of Prek Sbauv, was one of
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From 1933 to 1939 Hitler dismissed non-aryans from civil service which liquidated jewish-owned businesses and stripped Jewish lawyers and doctors of their clients. Hitler even forced the Jews into ghettos once he liquidated the Jews’ rights to do anything in Germany which was in September, 1939. He gave their homes that he moved them from to German with no jewish descent in them. In the late 1940s, Hitler started deporting Jews to his concentration camps. As soon as the jews were getting settled in, troops were told to annihilate the sickly, old, disabled, or very young jews, as they were not useful to the camp in any way. The camps were supposed to be kept a secret, but that was hardly impossible because of the scale of jewish killings. The heaviest deportation was 300,00 people in the summer and fall of 1942. Similar in amount of murders, The Killing Fields of Cambodia had rapid death rates. Of just a period of 4 years, more than 1.7 million Cambodians lost their lives in the hands of Khmer Rouge. Khmer Rouge had money, free markets, normal schooling, private schooling, and etc. abolished. Traditional black outfits were forced to be worn while inside the camps. The Cambodian Killing and The Holocaust had many similarities. One of the similarities were the camps that they held their hostages in. Hitler’s camps were more cruel in many ways. The camps were unsanitary and
From 1933 to 1939 Hitler dismissed non-aryans from civil service which liquidated jewish-owned businesses and stripped Jewish lawyers and doctors of their clients. Hitler even forced the Jews into ghettos once he liquidated the Jews’ rights to do anything in Germany which was in September, 1939. He gave their homes that he moved them from to German with no jewish descent in them. In the late 1940s, Hitler started deporting Jews to his concentration camps. As soon as the jews were getting settled in, troops were told to annihilate the sickly, old, disabled, or very young jews, as they were not useful to the camp in any way. The camps were supposed to be kept a secret, but that was hardly impossible because of the scale of jewish killings. The heaviest deportation was 300,00 people in the summer and fall of 1942. Similar in amount of murders, The Killing Fields of Cambodia had rapid death rates. Of just a period of 4 years, more than 1.7 million Cambodians lost their lives in the hands of Khmer Rouge. Khmer Rouge had money, free markets, normal schooling, private schooling, and etc. abolished. Traditional black outfits were forced to be worn while inside the camps. The Cambodian Killing and The Holocaust had many similarities. One of the similarities were the camps that they held their hostages in. Hitler’s camps were more cruel in many ways. The camps were unsanitary and