4. AUSCHWITZ

11. How Awful Things Happen Genocide 8

12. 1. THEM and US (CLASSIFICATION) CLASSIFICATION = putting people into groups BY RACE, RELIGION AND/OR NATIONALITY US AND THEM CAN YOU THINK OF ANY?

13. What ways do we put people into groups?

15. 2. NAMES (SYMBOLS) We call people Names – ‘Jews’ ‘Gypsies’ Make them wear certain clothes We all do this – see a turban or an orange clothing It is only wrong we we stop seeing them as people DEHUMANISATION

16. What symbols made you identify the people before? How do you recognize them?

18. SOMETIMES, THROUGH HATRED, PEOPLE MAY HAVE SYMBOLS FORCED ON THEM HATE SYMBOLS & SPEECH CAN BE FORBIDDEN TO SUCCEED GOOD OR BAD) MUST BE SUPPORTED BY THE PEOPLE. REFUSE TO WEAR IT – ALL WEAR IT IT DOESN’T WORK!

19. NO LONGER HUMAN (DEHUMANISATION) REGARDING, OR TREATING PEOPLE, AS IF THEY ARE ANIMALS, VERMIN OR DISEASE. IF THEY ARE NOT HUMAN THEN TREATING THEM BADLY IS NOT WRONG GENOCIDE IS NOT SEEN AS MURDER. DEHUMANISATION CHANGES ATTITUDES TO MURDER.

20. ORGANISATION IF IT’S ORGANISED THEN THEY CAN USE THE TV, RADIO AND PRESS. HATE GROUPS ARE FORMED, TRAINED AND ARMED. PLANS ARE MADE FOR GENOCIDE.

21. POLES APART (POLARISATION) US and THEM IF YOU ARE NOT ONE OF US YOU ARE AGAINST US. PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE ARE CALLED TRAITORS AND ARE PERSECUTED OR EVEN KILLED. IT IS NOW A KILL OR BE KILLED SITUATION.

22. PREPARATION PLANS ARE MADE NAMES ARE PUT ON LISTS PEOPLE ARE KILLED. TIME FOR AN INTERNATIONAL FORCE TO ACT INTERVENTION AND HUMANITARIAN AID REFUGEES.

23. EXTERMINATE NOT MURDER BUT KILLING "EXTERMINATION" IS WHEN KILLERS THINK THEIR VICTIMS TO BE LESS THAN THEM AND THAT THEY ARE PURIFYING SOCIETY. AT THIS STAGE, ONLY RAPID AND OVERWHELMING ARMED INTERVENTION CAN STOP GENOCIDE.

24. DENIAL IT WASN’T ME I DIDN’T DO IT! IT WAS THEM!

25. ‘Genocide is one-sided mass killing in which one group (often a nation or ruling power) intends to destroy another group Because they are DIFFERENT!

33. ‘Genocide is one-sided mass killing in which one group (often a nation or ruling power) intends to destroy another group Because they are DIFFERENT!

34. “The SHOAH* was the murder of six million Jews, including two million children. Holocaust denial is a second murder of those same six million. First their lives were extinguished; then their deaths. A person who denies the Holocaust becomes part of the crime of the Holocaust itself.” *Holocaust

35. “First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me--and there was no one left to speak for me.” Martin Niemöller 14 January 1892 – 6 March 1984