Similarities Between Hitler And Pol Pot
In the beginning, Hitler and Pol Pot decided to target a certain group of people, and then they separated them from the rest, this was an act of classification and symbolization. Pol Pot’s plan was to target the “New People”, which are the people who were doctors, lawyers, religious leaders, and anyone who was associated with imperialism. Unlike the Nazi’s, the Khmer Rouge dispised the ones who seemed as if they were better than the basic, poor or less educated people. According to Adam Jones, the author of the book “Genocide, A comprehensive Introduction”, Pol Pot saw things as urbanism vs peasantism. Hitler, on the other hand, saw things as the Jews being the liability of their downfall. Both Pol Pot and Hitler agreed with getting rid of
the people who they believed were in fault. In Pol Pot’s eyes the people who wore glasses were considered smarter because they had the ability to read, so anyone who had glasses was killed on the spot. Like the yellow star, the Khmer Rouge forced the Eastern people to wear blue and white checkered scarves while the rest wore red and white or yellow and white scarves. An eyewitness named Huy Rady stated "People from the Eastern zone would be known by their scarf. If you were wearing a blue scarf they would kill you. There was a plan to kill all the Eastern zone people. They were not going to spare any of them."
the people who they believed were in fault. In Pol Pot’s eyes the people who wore glasses were considered smarter because they had the ability to read, so anyone who had glasses was killed on the spot. Like the yellow star, the Khmer Rouge forced the Eastern people to wear blue and white checkered scarves while the rest wore red and white or yellow and white scarves. An eyewitness named Huy Rady stated "People from the Eastern zone would be known by their scarf. If you were wearing a blue scarf they would kill you. There was a plan to kill all the Eastern zone people. They were not going to spare any of them."