Genocide Vs The Holocaust

Genocide has been an unfortunate reoccurrence throughout history, with the Holocaust leading the way for all the others. The Holocaust can be traced back to 1933, when Hitler captured the position of chancellor and for 12 years over six million Jewish civilians would perish at the hands of the Nazi Party. It is true that Genocide had occurred earlier to this atrocity in Armenia, killing approximately two million, and it cannot go unsaid that millions more would perish in genocides yet to come in Darfur, Rwanda, and even more countries. Although all of these dark periods in time share the name of genocide, the Holocaust is different from the rest due to the want to eliminate every Jewish person alive, the industrial killing, and the Anti-Semitism …show more content…
Jewish people have been persecuted since the days after the establishment of Christianity. A prominent time period is the Middle Ages when Jewish people were persecuted for their alleged role in spreading the bubonic plague and poisoning of the population. In 1545, Martin Luther, the creator of the Lutheran Church wrote his pamphlet, “The Jews and Their Lies, claiming that Jews thirsted for Christian blood and urging the slaying of the Jews,” (A Brief). The Nazi’s would begin reprinting this pamphlet in 1935 as part of their propaganda campaign to make the Jewish seem inferior to them. Comparisons between the Darfur Genocide and the holocaust are drawn on the basis that both instances involved a history of hate. In Sudan, the North and the South have been fighting for over a half a century. While Civil Wars broke out all throughout the mid 1900’s, it was mainly over political and economic issues concerning resources and land. The Jewish population was never a threat to the political control of the Nazi’s, proving the Jewish were simply targeted for their frowned upon faith, and because the Nazis wanted to, “create a new world in which the world would be divided by races,” (Bauer). This means that the Nazis wanted to establish themselves as the greatest race, so they played on the well-known ideology of Anti-Semitism to jumpstart their vision of eliminating ‘subhuman races.’ In Sudan, the basis of attacking the Darfuri was to gain political control in the South, which is why it lacks the historical component of hate that the Holocaust involved. Overall, the Nazis played on the long past of hate towards the Jewish population, knowing it would be easier for people to turn a blind eye to their mission of dividing the races and making their super