Genocide Vs Holocaust

The words Genocide and the Holocaust both describe a grand massacre done with the intention of exterminating an entire race or people. Genocide is more specifically the “systematic destruction of a certain people based on their race, religion, or citizenship.” (Kumar, 2018) This destruction can take place by isolating people, enforcing birth control on women, or trying to ‘tame a bunch of savages’. Holocaust is originally a Greek word, meaning, ‘whole burnt.’ Holocaust was first used to describe the mass killing of Jews in the medieval period. Now, the Holocaust is a proper noun that describes the massive homicide of over 6 million Jews and 10 million other ‘imperfections’ including the Roma, the homosexuals, and the communists. The Holocaust
In fact, Hitler studied the residential school policies when dealing with those whom he considered ‘undesirable’. The concentration camps were where Jews would perform labour until they died of exhaustion or illness. In both the Holocaust and residential schooling, the undesirable people were isolated from the rest of the society. The aboriginals and the Jews were abused pyschologically, sexually, and physically. Richard Henry Pratt, a founder of the influential Carlisle Indian Industrial School, mentioned, “The only good Indian is a dead Indian.” (Narcoe, n.d.) Much similarly, Hitler stated, “The Holocaust is the solution to the Jew’s final question.” (Mosaisk, n.d.) Both Pratt and Hitler had a desire to make a pure, unadulterated race. The aboriginals had to assimilate into the superior culture while the Jews were considered imperfections and exterminated. Removing the child from the influence of their culture, families, traditions, and homes was done to murder the ‘Indian’ inside each of these children. The Holocaust and the Residential Schooling were attempts to create a perfect race, either by the gathering and killing of millions of innocent people or by the manipulation and enforcement of a dominant culture onto a group of
Pearl harbour is a US naval base that was the scene of a surprise attack by Japanese on December 7th, 1941. (History.com Staff. 2009) Despite the surprise, but the Japanese and the Americans had been edging towards war for decades, so it is unclear to say that this was the main rationale for the Americans to test their atomic bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Americans used the argument was that American lives would have been lost otherwise and that it was necessary to end the war as quick as possible. Another excuse was that the atomic bomb was revenge for Japanese brutality. However, the tension between Japan and America goes back to Japan's desire to use East Asia, more specifically China and Korea, to gain natural resources and sell manufactured products. This was in direct conflict with American plans for Asia. Washington wanted to keep China's natural resources and markets free from control by Japan or any other nation. The problem grew bigger until both the countries were at each other’s throats, possibly the major reason America went ahead with the decision to bomb in Hiroshima and