1. Mert Oşar

2. Genocide means group killing in Latin. The word “Genocide”was first used by Raphael Lemkin, a polish, Jewish legal scholar. I think the best example for genocide is the annihilation of Jews, commited by Adolf Hitler.

3. The Jewish genocide started before and continued during the World War II. It was also known as the “Holocaust”. Hitler attacked the Jews with a group called the Nazis.

4. Hitler thought that the German people were the superior race on earth. He wanted everyone to be German, especially blond and blue-eyed. So he started killing the Jews in Germany. Then he couldn’t stop and caused the death of six million Jews that lived in Europe. One-half million gypsies and 250,000 mentally or physcally disabled people were also killed.

5. Hitler first gathered the Jews in camps that were told to be concentration camps. Then he told them to take a shower. There he locked them up and gave them poisonous gas.

6. In Conclusion… The holocaust event perfectly represents the meaning of the word genocide or «ethnic» cleansing. I wish something like this never happens again. Peace to all!