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Date Submitted: 01/18/2011 12:27 PM
Genocide
Genocide: literally means a systematic way of killing a racial or cultural group. Genocide is a horrific event or events that are inhuman; genocide occurred during WW2 in attempts to create a super race and it also occurred in Cambodia 1975-1979. Both of these mass killings (6 million for the Holocaust, 1.7 million for Cambodia) were done for reasons and in a systematic manner. However both of these tragedies go down in history as some of the most graphic and dark times of all time.
I have learned that the Nazis dehumanized the Jewish population in a very specific manner. It started in 1933, during this year many key events happened including Hitler coming to power in office but it was also the same year the Jews began to lose rights. On April, 1 Nazi officials and members began boycotting all Jewish ran stores. Later on Hitler also took away the Jewish freedom of press, he decreed that all non-Aryan people were lesser and closer to dogs than to human. On May, 10 the burning of the books took place all across Germany. The Nazis then proceeded to make the Nazi party the only legal party in the state. As you can see from just these few amount of removed rights the Nazis slowly started to assert themselves as the only party and people that were permitted in Germany, or for what they thought, the entire world. The Nazis had successfully degraded the Jews rights and privileges to a low enough level that it was actually illegal to be Jewish.
Relating the systematic ways that the Nazis dehumanized the Jews to the Cambodia killings; they were nothing alike. In Cambodia everything took place at an almost improbably fast rate. The Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot’s reign overthrew the government and within days after completing that continued with ruthless and extreme organized programs in which they wanted to reconstruct Cambodia into a laborious farming based economy; any human that stood in their way would be executed or put into concentration camps....