The Meaning Of Genocide

“Hitler’s concept of concentration camps as well as the practicality of genocide owed much, so he claimed, to his studies of English and United States history. He admired the camps for Boer prisoners in South Africa and for the Indians in the wild west; and often praised to his inner circle the efficiency of America’s extermination – by starvation and uneven combat – of the red savages who could not be tamed by captivity.” (Toland). Because of the US policies that were put in place the American Indians still to this day hold the paramount mortality rate of any US oppositions. Some of the biggest manslaughters came from European countries bringing deadly diseases over to America on purpose hoping that they would wipe out the American Indian
However some people debate about whether the treatment of the Indians can be compared to the Jews in Nazi Germany. It is suggested that while Hitler intentionally knowing what he was doing still had no concern for the Jewish in the ghettos where they were denied everything that humans are rightfully allowed. Such as medicine food, etc. Whereas the Indians where given all of these ‘privlidges’ even though they were received in inadequate portions. The aim of treating the American Indians like this was to get them to move across into the land the white people where handing over to them. Meanwhile Hitler didn’t want the Jewish moved anywhere he just wanted them all dead which is why some historians and members of society disagree with the suggestion that the actions of the American government towards the Indians should be called a holocaust. However, some believe that it is more than enough to hand out the term genocide. “David Stannard, for instance, states that just as Jews who died of disease and
Obviously the situation of the relocations for the Native Americans were not ideal and often came with great consequences such as strident treatment, catastrophic and and resulted in an incredible amount of suffering. The lives of hundreds of thousands Indians were taken during the removal of the Cherokee in 1838 and is often referred to in history as the ‘Trail of Tears’ as they had to move west of the Mississippi and leave their homes and territories behind. The white settlers came over to America for several reasons but some believe they didn’t come over to the new found country to purposely infect the Indians with deadly bacilli or with malicious intentions of harming men, women or children. It is to be believed that they wanted to engage with the American culture and Europeans thought it would be a better place to live. But then they removed all the culture and sent them away and just moving over the European culture to