What Caused The Holocaust

The holocaust was the mass murder of 6 million European Jews by the German Nazi regime during World War 2. Adolf Hitler hated the Jews and blamed them for Germany losing World War I. He considered Jewish people to be less than human. Hitler also believed in the superiority of the Aryan race. Once he became chancellor of Germany, Hitler took away all of the Jews rights as human beings. Hitler forced the Jews to live in ghettos. The Jews would be transferred to concentration camps, where they would do hard labor. The Jews died in the concentration camps by diseases, starvation, or the cold. Some camps had gas

Imagine if you were watching the news and there was an announcement about a mass genocide taking place right now,somewhere in the world.How would you feel?Well,sadly this is a reality to some people in the world. The word genocide itself is enough to strike fear into the hearts of many. The holocaust and the cultural revolution of Tibet were both large acts of genocide which were both handled differently by the victims and by the world as a whole.Genocide is a horrible crime that has been committed many times throughout history and many cases have been ignored by most of the world.

A genocide that is still currently happening is the one in Laos which is the result of the Vietnam War. It was a war against the communist North and the democratic South with the help of the U.S. The U.S got involved because they want to prevent the spread of communism, which is known as the “domino theory” where if a surrounding country falls into the ideology of … then the rest will fall with it. The leader of North Vietnam was Ho Chi Minh, a strong dictator that managed to get support of his people. He states that the South was being used as a puppet state by the American. A lot of American dislikes this war and many oppose it, however many Americans don’t know that there was actually another war going on known as the Secret War.

During the 100 days of the brutal massacre known as the Rwandan Genocide, between 800,000 to a million people were tragically murdered. Tutsis were not the only ones being killed. Hutus were also being killed for various reasons. If people thought they felt regretful for what they were doing to the Tutsi, they would be killed. If the Hutus tried to help the Tutsi in anyway they were killed. Many of the Hutus were killed if they opposed the killing campaign and the forces directing it.

On April 4, 1994, Hutu President, Juvenal Habyaimana and another Hutu leader, Cyprien Ntaryamira were on an airplane flying back to Rwanda. The plane was shot down and everyone on board was killed. The Hutu people blamed the terrorist attack on the RPF political group. They began to create hit lists for the Hutu militia to kill all of the Tutsi officials. Roadblocks were set up by the Hutu and if Tutsi people tried to pass, their IDs were checked. If they had any form of Tutsi identification, they were killed. The slaughter was just getting started. Neighbors were killing neighbors. Friends were killing friends. Family was killing family. Even religious leaders were killing the Tutsi people. There was thought to be no stop to the slaughter. (BBC)

From the dawn of time to even now, genocides have been happening throughout history. Some earlier genocides have not even been recorded or documented. Genocides happen because one group wants complete control and absolute power of another. People can be killed for having different ideals or being different. Knowing this, one could see that genocides only end with senseless and brutal discrimination and death. From 1975 to 1979, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge carried out a genocide in Cambodia killing all people who seemed to oppose them and their communist government (“The Cambodian Genocide”).

Many horrific incidents have happened on this earth that has changed the world forever. These incidents are better reformed as genocides. Genocides can happen usually at any time and can last a couple years or more. The Darfur genocide is one of the most worst and horrific genocides that has happened on this earth. It involved many deaths and destruction to the

The section that was used in the investigation was chapter two, part five. This section was written by Paul Magnarella who is an attorney, anthropologist, and chair of the Peace Studies at Warren Wilson College, in Asheville, North Carolina. Paul Magnarella believes that the Rwandan Government's attempt to fix the conflict was to encourage the elimination of the Tutsi and Hutu sympathizers instead of fixing the conflict through social and economic reforms. Paul had many beliefs on the reasons for the outbreak of the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. The majority of the Hutu tribe was farmers, and the majority of the Tutsis were cattle grazers. “..Flight or death of more than half of Rwanda's Tutsi population...” this tells me that the Tutsi population was in grave danger, and the Hutu population was behind this. The time period tells us that tribal conflict isn't unheard of, but to this extent is very uncommon. Paul Magnarella is an american who did not live in the time of the genocide, this skews his interpretation on the conflict among tribes, he cannot relate or truly understand how the Rwandan people were feeling or why they acted the way they

The Hutu and the Tutsi have a violent history dating back to 1959 when the Hutus overthrew the Tutsi king appointed by the Belgian colonizers. Thousands of Tutsi were killed and over a hundred thousand were driven into neighboring countries. Years later the exiled Tutsi formed the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) and began a civil war in 1990. This resulted in years of political and economic disruption and culminated in 1994 to a state-orchestrated genocide which led to the deaths of ¾ of the Tutsi population as well as about 30% of the Twa. The genocide ended when the RPF defeated the national army and established a government of national unity led by the RPF (CIA). Nearly 2 million Hutu fled Rwanda in fear of Tutsi retaliation which may have been well founded. In August 2010 the UN published a report which accused Rwanda’s Tutsi leaders of “crimes against humanity, war crimes, or even genocide”. The report details the systematic and premeditated nature of attacks on Hutus in the DRC by the Rwandan army from 1993 to 2003 (United Nations, “DRC”). The Rwandan government has since denied the allegations however multiple mass graves have been found where the genocides were

The holocaust was a sad time to be a jew in Europe. Jews was sent to camps in Poland. Germans hated the jews because hitler made them think that they was the cause of them failing WW1. So they had to make it feel like they wasn’t at fault. Which cause the holocaust.

Have you heard of the country Bangladesh? Bangladesh is the country that began because of a genocide. Bangladesh is a South Asian country originally called East Pakistan that was once part of a country now known as Pakistan because of the genocide. “The Guinness Book of Records lists the Bangladesh Genocide as one of the top 5 genocides in the 20th century” (G.B.) The Bangladesh genocide happened 1971. When West Pakistan began a army crackdown on the eastern wing of the nation bassically trying to be the bigger part of both countries. This led to a nine month long war for Bangladesh, Members of the Pakistani military killed an estimated of three thousand to three million people and raped between two hundred to four hundred thousand Bengali

There’s multiple genocides that happened in the world and some genocides are still happening today. Most genocides aren’t as known as other genocides. The genocides that are known, most people either don’t know information about them or know little information about the genocide. The Rwandan genocide happened in 1994. Belgian colonization of Rwanda favored Tutsis over Hutus. After the Belgians left in 1962, the Hutus took power. Tutsis led attempted coup in 1990 leading to civil war. President Habyarimana called for an end to war, but was killed when his plane was shot down in 1994. Hutus responded with mass killings of the Tutsis. Within 100 days, 800,000 Tutsis were dead. The Rwandan genocide can be classified as one of the most tragic and terrible genocide there is.

Nobody has the right to criticise or diminish the suffering of others when they have not endured the same pain themselves. So why is it that there are still people in our world today who are heartless enough to repudiate the facts from the mass murder and systematic annihilation of the Holocaust; debatably the most cold-blooded crime in human history?

The Serbian-Bosnian conflict in the mid-1990s, the Rwanda Genocide in 1990, and the Darfur Crisis in the early-200s; all of these events were reported on extensively by most major American newspapers including, The New York Times. But, these events were post-Holocaust when The New York Times had learn its lesson from how the paper handled covering the Holocaust in the early and mid-twentieth century. In this paper, I will examine why The New York Times buried reports of the Nazi regime and why some Holocaust survivors might prefer it that way.

The Holocaust was an atrocious event that took place in the early to mid 1900’s. Six million Jews were brutally and coldly murdered, as were millions of other innocent people, resulting in the largest recorded genocide to date. With the Holocaust being many events leading up to the mass murder of innocent people, there is no official beginning date of the Holocaust. In order to understand this and the Holocaust as a whole, one must understand the causes and events that lead up to this mass genocide.