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Genocide Why humans kill humans
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Genocide : the systematic killing of a whole people or nation Armenians in Turkey 1915-1918 1.5 million Stalin’s forced famine 1932-1933 7 million Rape of Nanking 1937-1938 300,000 Nazi Holocaust: 1938-1945 - 6 million Poll Pot in Cambodia: 1975-1979 - 2 million Bosnia-Herzegovina: 1992-1995 - 200,000 Rwanda 1994 -800,000
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"Who remembers now the extermination of the Armenians?" Adolph Hitler Learning from History….
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Stages of Genocide
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"In Germany they came first for the Communists and I didn't speak up because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the Jews and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me... and by that time there was no one left to speak up." Martin Niemöeller (1892-1984) Why didn’t German’s Protest?
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FREE-WRITE How do leaders convince people to hate another group of human beings? What lessons can mankind learn from the Holocaust?
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The Holocaust
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Hitler’s View Germanic People (Aryans) were a “master race” Jews and others were inferior Nazi propaganda preached Anti-Semitism
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Holocaust Reading
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Secrecy of Camps “I should ask you to take pains to instruct the accompanying guards before every journey not to instill thoughts of resistance by voicing in their presence supposition about the type of quarters”
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Road to Genocide 1933- prosecution of Jews became Gov’t Policy 1935- Nuremberg Laws passed which deprived Jews of German citizenship, jobs and property 1938 Kristallnacht-night of “broken glass--- Germans attack Jewish homes & businesses
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Yellow Star
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Hitler’s Plan Step 1: Immigration: tried to “export” Jews to other countries –Britain 80,000 U.S. 100,000 France 25,000 –Latin America 40,000 Step 2: Ghettos: Hitler turned to isolation as immigration proved limited Step 3: Final Solution- moved Jews to concentration camps and began mass killings
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Jewish Population in 1939
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Ghettos Overcrowded areas of cities, sealed off with barbed wire and stone walls
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“Final Solution”: Concentration Camps
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Mass Extermination Began in early 1942 Built gas chambers-could kill 6,000 a day –Later added ovens to burn the dead Hitler also targeted gypsies, homosexuals and mentally ill
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Concentrations camps were spread throughout Europe
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The Final Numbers 6,000,000 Jewish deaths » Original Population Killed Poland3,300,0003,000,000 Soviet Union2,850,0001,252,000 Hungary 650,000 450,000 Romania 600,000 300,000 Germany 240,000 200,000
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Sorting Shoes at Auschwitz
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Why did this happen? Genocide has occurred many times throughout history (How can a leader of a country produce such hatred towards others?) CRITICAL THINKING…
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FREE-WRITE How do leaders convince people to hate another group of human beings? What lessons can mankind learn from the Holocaust?
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