How was an atrocity like the Holocaust able to occur? This is a question many historians grapple with. In Doris Bergen’s book‚ “War and Genocide‚” she explains how the Holocaust happened in terms of how a house burns down. “Three things are required‚” she writes; kindling‚ a spark to start the fire‚ and complying weather. In terms of the Holocaust‚ these three factors are the deeply seeded antisemitism‚ Hitler and Nazism‚ and a public of compliant bystanders and collaborators. Most historians agree
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In the work‚ War & Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust‚ Doris Bergen presents a study on the Holocaust that is well-rounded historically‚ encompassing aspects of society‚ politics‚ and military. Furthermore‚ Bergen uniquely covers many other areas and peoples targeted by the Nazi Regime as well‚ including the disabled‚ the Roma‚ Sinti‚ and Slavic people‚ and homosexuals. Although many historians have covered the Holocaust‚ and World War II and Nazism‚ Bergen’s work offers clear and distinct
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Night: Inhumanity/Genocide Night‚ a memoir written by Elie Wiesel‚ is about a young boy and his experience in the concentration camps during the Holocaust. This young boy‚ Elie Wiesel‚ starts of as a religiously devout Jew that lives in a small community of Sighet‚ Hungarian Transylvania. In the spring of 1944‚ his close knit family of his parents and three sisters are deported to Birkenau. Elie is separated from his mother and his sisters at the arrival of the concentration camps. After a short
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During my sophomore year (2014-2015) of high school‚ I learned about how the Cambodian genocide in the late 1970s impacted the survivors‚ particularly adolescents and children. Because the educated and middle classes of Cambodia were wiped out‚ the teenagers of Cambodia now have little choices other than child labor or sex trafficking. Individuals within my youth group formed The Cambodia Initiative with the goal of building a $62‚000 dorm for 50 students in the Banteay Meanchey Province so that
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Throughout my reading of The Denial of Genocide reading‚ I was astonished by some of the things that I had not heard before and how ridiculous that were to read after the knowledge I have of the subject. One example is the quote: “Not a single German document has ever been found which refers to an extermination program.” (523.) After taking a holocaust course and watching videos of the Nuremberg trials and the many people sorting through thousands of Nazi documents‚ makes me question how someone
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Cultural genocide exists in Mexico‚ and I am not referring to the McDonalds that has taken over the local taco vender‚ or even Starbucks - now on practically every corner- engulfing the national coffee brand; I am referring to the institutional‚ societal and scholarly misrepresentation of the African presence in Mexico. The presence of the “negro” in Mexico is itself an enigma not only for the Mexican population in general‚ but also - and more specifically - for the black Mexicans themselves. A country
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at war with my country. My country has a desirable coast‚ helpful for trading and defending with our navy. All my life‚ we have been at war without mercy. Detesting the adversary‚ due to unimaginable horror both sides have practically committed genocide. Living as a child‚ under a roof threatened of our rights my parents and I struggled. I couldn’t imagine how I would survive without my parents‚ telling me stories every night and putting me to bed.
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The island of Sri Lanka‚ situated in the Indian Ocean off the southern tip of India‚ is an exquisitely beautiful and spiritual place. Torture‚ rape and random killings have been perpetrated by the military and pro-government paramilitaries. Underpinning this war has been Western military aid and political support. This reflects Sri Lanka’s strategic significance‚ but also that the military‚ political and theocratic elites that rule Sri Lanka maintain Western domination of the economy that still follows
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During the Armenian genocide there was a loss of 1‚500‚000 lives. By 1923‚ the entire landmass of Asia minor and historic Armenia had been erased or removed completely of its population of Armenians. The amount of lives loss left a devastating mark on the Armenian culture‚ and almost completely demolished the Armenian culture‚ forever. Although the Turkish government kept the genocide of the Armenians secret from the rest of the world‚ the genocide was still a result of an unethical society because
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acts of genocide known to man. People do not believe the Holocaust should be classified as genocide. The Holocaust should be considered an example of genocide based on the UN’s definition‚ the stages of genocide‚ and the specific evidence provided in the memoir Night. First‚ one reason Holocaust should be considered an act of genocide is because of the UN’s definition of the crime. In article one‚ corruption on prevention and punishment of crime of genocide
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