1. Genocide

2. Genocide: the systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial, political, religious, or cultural group.
There have been many acts of genocide throughout history

3. Armenians Date: 1915-1917 Location: Ottoman Empire
Leader: Leaders of the Ottoman Empire
Victims: Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks
Type of Genocide: Ethnic
Total Deaths: Between 1 and 1.5 million

4. Armenian Methods
Mass burning
Suffocation
Use of poison
Deportation

5. The Great Purge Date: 1936-1938 Location: the Soviet Union
Leader: Joseph Stalin
Victims: government officials, Communist party members, peasants
Type of Genocide: Political/Cultural
There is a person - there is a problem, there is no person - there is no problem.—Joseph Stalin

6. Holocaust Date: 1938-1945 Location: Europe Leader: Adolph Hitler
Victims: primarily Jews but also gypsies, Poles, Soviets, and political opponents
Type of Genocide: Ethnic
Total Deaths: 6 million Jews, 10 million people total

7. What led to the Holocaust?
Totalitarianism combined with nationalism
History of anti-Semitism
Defeat in World War I and economic depression blamed on German Jews
Hitler’s belief in the master race

8. 1942: the Wannsee Conference
Reinhard Heydrich—given the task of creating the “Final Solution to the Jewish question”
Idea for deportation of Jews to Eastern Europe for work on roads and other public projects
“Under proper guidance, in the course of the final solution the Jews are to be allocated for appropriate labor in the East. Able-bodied Jews, separated according to sex, will be taken in large work columns to these areas for work on roads, in the course of which action doubtless a large portion will be eliminated by natural causes. The possible final remnant will, since it will undoubtedly consist of the most resistant portion, have to be treated accordingly, because it is the product of natural selection and would, if released, act as the seed of a new Jewish revival".
Instead, were often sent to concentration camps

9. The Final Solution
Hitler’s plan, decided during the Wannsee Conference, to systematically exterminate the Jewish race and other unmentionables in Germany

10. Step 1: Ghettos

11. Ghettos After Kristallnacht, many Jews emigrated
Hitler knew he couldn’t get rid of all Jews through emigration
Sent Jews to ghettos – segregated Jewish areas
Sealed off with barbed wire and stone walls

12. Step 2: Trains

13. A Typical Boxcar 100 people would be loaded into one freight car
Jews had to pay their own way

15. Step 3: Selections and Camp

17. Step 4: Camp Life and the Gas Chambers

19. Cambodia Date: 1975-1979 Location: Cambodia Leader: Pol Pot
Victims: the educated, artists, government officials, monks, and minorities
Type of Genocide: Cultural
Total Deaths: 1.7 million people (~20% of the population)

21. Rwanda Date: 1994 Location: Rwanda Leader: the Hutu majority
Victims: the Tutsi minority
Type of Genocide: Ethnic
Over the course of 100 days, over 800,000 people were killed