1. What happened? The holocaust was the systematic extermination of over six million Jews‚ along with many black‚ gypsy‚ homosexual‚ and disabled people. It is considered one of the largest cases of genocide from modern history. Even though it started as simple discrimination‚ before long it had escalated to full blown organized murder. From 1933 all the way through 1945‚ anyone that Hitler deemed as ‘undesirable’ was annihilated. In 1933‚ there were roughly nine million Jews in Europe‚ with the
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another Holocaust can happen again. It did already occur; think of Cambodia‚ Rwanda‚ and Bosnia" -Miep Gies. Genocide is killing a mass group of people in a certain group. For these reasons‚ a genocide could happen again today. An event the magnitude of the Holocaust could happen again because people in this world can just hate a certain group or religion and decide to commit a mass murder just because he hates that group or religion. An event the magnitude of the Holocaust could happen again since
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people‚ whether it be for superstitions‚ personal gain‚ or both. The Holocaust‚ one of the most violent genocidal events in the past century‚ has sparked many awareness programs to prevent another event of similar nature from happening again. Genocide is the act of deliberately killing a large group of people‚ especially those of a similar ethnic group or nation. These awareness efforts in recent years have lead historians to ask: Why does genocide occur? Often‚ genocide is the product of political and
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There is a great deal of evidence to support that evolution did indeed happen. Evolution is the changes in a population over time‚ it’s explained through descent with modification and natural selection. The findings from earlier thinkers all back this evidence up. Charles Darwin used evidence he found from research and studying the work of other scientists who studied fossils to support his claim that modern organisms are the descendants of ancestral species that were different from those of today
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What is the holocaust? Ever wonder what events took place during the holocaust or even why the holocaust took place? Throughout history Jews were expelled from many countries‚ ("Why Did the Holocaust Start?") Jews were also blamed for many misshapes that took place in the economy and even in history. The holocaust took place because Nazi leader Hitler’s beliefs‚ the lost of world WWI‚ and because the rest of Germany’s losses were blamed on Jews. These events lead to the holocaust causing Jews to
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Could an Event Like Holocaust Happen Now? Lijin john History II: 1303-4008/4009 04/14/2008 Could an event like the Holocaust happen now? The Holocaust was a horrible and tragic event. The sad thing is that it is still happening today. In the country of Rwanda‚ the mass killings of a certain group of people happened as recently as 1994. The United States and U.N turned its back on it. The other similar event happened in Iraq when Saddam Hussein used weapons of mass destruction to
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Representations of the Past‚ and the Holocaust. In this he describes that the public burnings of the Hebrew Bible had nothing to do with racial ideology but more to do with Nazi anti-Semitism. His interpretation and argument of the holocaust is different than many other scholarly articles that impose that Hitler and his Nazi followers were racially prejudice and wanted to watch the impure nations burn. In David Caldwell’s article Reflections on holocaust and Holocaust‚ he argues that the final solution
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The Holocaust was arguably one of the most horrific events in the history of our race. The fact that a human being was capable of such terrible things is just incredibly hard to believe. The main reason we do learn about the Holocaust is to keep it from happening again. But it’s hard not to wonder whether simply knowing of the event can really stop somebody from doing something like this a second time around in a country as developed and opportunistic as the United States. Our country is
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learn about them today. One of those important events being the Holocaust is something that is still being talked about and learned today through the book called Night by Elie Wiesel and other various sources. The Holocaust was an event in history that should never be forgotten and is urgent to learn about still to this day because of the horrible things that happened to the Jews and so we are prepared so the Holocaust never happens again. It’s important to give recognition to how cruelly the
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The Armenian genocide was one of the most deadly genocides in history. In 1915‚ The Turkish government started a several year massacre that claimed the lives of nearly 1.5 million Armenians. The Armenians were viewed as infidels in the eyes of the Ottoman rulers. Different Armenian leaders were gathered and executed‚ which was the beginning of the massacre. Although some countries and people do not view this as a genocide‚ it should not have happened because the Armenians were only scapegoats to
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