Holocaust Act Of Genocide

Is The Holocaust Considered An Act of Genocide? According to Kavin Lehnardt”during the holocaust ,6 million Jews were murdered”. Jews were an inferior race.Adolf Hitler tried to kill all the Jews(history.com). Adolf Hitler and the Nazis created concentration camps to put the Jews in . Others may believe that the holocaust was not an act of genocide. One reason the holocaust should be considered an act of genocide is based on the United Nations definition. The “Convention on the Prevention and Punishment” of genocide treaty describes that genocide is illegal , and anyone who commits the crime should be disciplined . In the present Convention , genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy , in whole or in part,
Stanton explains that whether in whole or in part , any acts of genocide that are committed will be punished.“The first stages precede later stages, but continue to operate throughout the genocidal process. Each stage reinforces the others. A strategy to prevent genocide should attack each stage, each process”. On page 2, in the article 8 stages of Genocide, the author discusses that if you do not recognize the early stages of genocide then the illegal process has already begun. “ SYMBOLIZATION: We give names or other symbols to the classifications. We name people “Jews” or “Gypsies ‘, or distinguish them by color or dress; and apply the symbols to members or groups. Classification and symbolization and universally human do not necessarily result in genocide unless they lead to the next stage, dehumanization. When combined with hatred, symbols may be forced upon unwilling members of pariah groups: the yellow star for Jews under Nazi rule, the blue scarf for people from the Eastern Zone in Khmer Rouge Cambodia.” Gregory writes this that if certain members of one group are being classified or symbolized as something else this is an act of Genocide. This further reveals that in the early stages of Genocide if a person is being forced to be labeled as something they are not this further turns into dehumanization without one’s
“Extermination begins, and quickly becomes the mass killing legally called “genocide.” It is extermination to the killers because they do not believe their victims to be fully human. When it is sponsored by the state, the armed forces often work militias to the killing. Sometimes the genocide results in revenge killings by groups by groups against each other , creating