Eight Stages Of The Holocaust
Genocide is the process of killing an entire group of people, mass murder, depending on ethnicity, religion, and or nationality. This is an eight stage process that has been recorded many times in history. It was so big of a deal at one point in time that national laws were made against it and anything related to it. Being organized and planned, Genocide has eight stages which are: Classification, Symbolization, Dehumanization, Organization, Polarization, Preparation, Extermination, and Denial. Groups are divided into categories during classification which then leads into symbolization which is when the groups are given symbols to define who and what they are. Then one group claims that another is not human which is the stage of dehumanization.
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The Holocaust lasted from 1933 to 1948 and during this time Adolf Hitler, the ruler of Germany, and the Nazi party exterminated many Jews. Hitler organized the Holocaust and called it “The Final
Solution” in the Holocaust he used many methods to kill Jews, first he would put them into Ghettos and Concentration Camps. In these camps they were beaten, burned, gassed, shot, starved, and killed in many other ways. Due to the Holocaust the term “Genocide” was introduced by a man named Raphael Lemkin when he wanted to describe what had happened, he took the terms geno meaning race; tribe and the term cide meaning killing and combined them to form the term “Genocide” in 1944, (ushmm.org). After the Holocaust, in 1948, the United Nations Convention took place. During this Convention the United Nations placed laws on genocide. “Genocide whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law” (UNC 1948). When the Holocaust, one of the biggest genocides, was over the United Nations did not want something like that to happen again so they came together and discussed the matter among each other and decided what was to be punishable. “The following acts shall be punishable: Genocide, Conspiracy to commit Genocide, Direct and public incitement to genocide, attempt to commit genocide, complicity in genocide” (UNC 1948). The UN decided that even discussing genocide, in the matter that you were going to commit it, was to be punishable.
The Holocaust lasted from 1933 to 1948 and during this time Adolf Hitler, the ruler of Germany, and the Nazi party exterminated many Jews. Hitler organized the Holocaust and called it “The Final
Solution” in the Holocaust he used many methods to kill Jews, first he would put them into Ghettos and Concentration Camps. In these camps they were beaten, burned, gassed, shot, starved, and killed in many other ways. Due to the Holocaust the term “Genocide” was introduced by a man named Raphael Lemkin when he wanted to describe what had happened, he took the terms geno meaning race; tribe and the term cide meaning killing and combined them to form the term “Genocide” in 1944, (ushmm.org). After the Holocaust, in 1948, the United Nations Convention took place. During this Convention the United Nations placed laws on genocide. “Genocide whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law” (UNC 1948). When the Holocaust, one of the biggest genocides, was over the United Nations did not want something like that to happen again so they came together and discussed the matter among each other and decided what was to be punishable. “The following acts shall be punishable: Genocide, Conspiracy to commit Genocide, Direct and public incitement to genocide, attempt to commit genocide, complicity in genocide” (UNC 1948). The UN decided that even discussing genocide, in the matter that you were going to commit it, was to be punishable.