The Holocaust is the most infamous genocide in the world. Adolf Hitler served in WWI and blamed the Jews for the country’s loss in 1918. After the war ended‚ Hitler joined the NSDAP or the Nazis. In prison for treason‚ he wrote his book called “Mein Kampf” (My Struggle) and anticipated a European war resulting in an “extermination of the Jewish race in Germany”. On January 30th‚ 1933‚ he was named chancellor of Germany‚ but after President Paul von Hindenburg died in 1934‚ he selected himself as
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Cynthia Bahorich Extended Essay Introduction When Pol Pot took over Cambodia‚ it was one of the most horrible genocides next to the Holocaust‚ in the 1970’s; this was a big part of history. In March 1970‚ Marshal Lon Nol‚ a Cambodian politician who had previously served as prime minister‚ and his pro-American associates staged a successful overthrow to depose Prince Sihanouk as head of state. At this time‚ the Khmer Rouge had gained members and was positioned to become a major player in the civil
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The term genocide was not coined until 1943 when Raphael Lamkin used it to describe the Nazi reign in Europe (ROD notes). Genocide refers to the systematic destruction of a racial or cultural group. Two examples of this are the Holocaust and the Rape of Nanking. The Holocaust deals with the Nazi’s takeover of Europe during World War II‚ and the Rape of Nanking is the Japanese invasion of China in the late 1930’s. These events in history serve a painful reminder of the cruelest depths of human nature
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Genocide: For the Dead and Living We Must Bear Witness Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: Everyone has the right to life‚ liberty and security of person. The right to life seems like the most basic right; a person is born‚ and they have the right to breathe air‚ drink water‚ and make any other necessary decisions to live. However‚ every now and then someone (or a group of people) decides that a person‚ or an entire race‚ does not deserve to live. Genocide‚ the purposeful
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and mass murders were similar in their leaders. All three leaders‚ Hitler‚ Leopold‚ and Stalin shared similar ideas psychologically‚ economically‚ politically‚ and socially. The death camps were first introduced in the 1940’s during the Holocaust. The Holocaust is the term used to describe the state sponsored mass murder of millions of Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators (Berenbaum). The Nazis called this “the Final Solution” to the jewish question. The goal of this was to discard all Jews
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During the Holocaust‚ Germany had just recently come into Nazi control under facist dictator‚ Adolf Hitler. In 1933‚ Hitler was elected as Chancellor of Germany‚ and he almost immediately began anti-Semitic Laws aimed to eliminate Jews’ rights. Hitler had specific features
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In the recorded conversations that Richard Nixon‚ the 37th President of the United States‚ had with his White House aides‚ he reveals his motivations and his assumptions about the American public: “Everybody says we’ve got to protect this one and that one and the other one. The main thing we’ve got to protect is the Presidency”. He felt that the presidency granted him immunity to the law. Under his Presidency‚ an air of distrust of government gradually grew amongst US citizens. He led a criminal
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Genocide As stated by the United Nations Genocide Convention‚ genocide is a coordinated plan to destroy‚ in whole or in part‚ a national‚ ethnic‚ racial‚ or religious group‚ by killing‚ causing serious bodily or mental harm‚ inflicting conditions designed to bring about its destruction‚ preventing births within the group ‚ or removing children from the group. The term did not exist until Raphael Lemkin devised the word in 1944. Therefore there was no legal mechanism for the international community
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The Holocaust isn’t the only genocide in History. The definition of genocide is “The deliberate and systematic extermination of a nation‚ racial‚ or cultural group. Two groups in Rwanda‚ the Hutus the dominant and the Tutsis the smaller are at war. The Rwandan Genocide started because of a death of the Rwandan president‚ but no one knows who caused it. To start‚ the Rwandan Genocide was a war between two groups in Africa. There were 2 groups‚ the Hutus and the Tutsis. To start‚ it was originally
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Darfur and Rwandan Genocides Comparison The Quest to maintain power has been responsible for some of the worst human actions in history‚ including genocides.The Rwandan Genocide was the massive killing of hundreds of thousands of Rwanda’s Tutsis and Hutu over about 100 days. Political figure Juvenal Habyarimana‚ the President at the time‚ died in a plane crash. The Hutu blamed it on the Tutsi claiming it as assassination. Out of fear of being defenceless‚ the Huti tribe set out to destroy
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