500,000 tutsi and hutu were slaughtered, even worse was the 2.8 million jews that were killed in the holocaust.. Although this extermination was a lot, it was nothing compared to the Holocaust, where roughly nine million people died. What was unique about the Holocaust was that the victim groups were all considered undesirable by Hitler, whereas in the Rwanda genocide, the victim groups often swapped places with the perpetrators. The Rwanda Genocide came to begin in 1896 when Germans began the rule in Rwanda; the people that were mostly killed were Tutsi and Hutu, and in the Holocaust, the Germans mostly killed the Jewish. These two massacres had some similarities, but there are also some differences.
Although they happened 9,951 of miles away and almost 37 years apart, the Holocaust and the Rwanda Genocide were both the result of power-hungry dictators seeking to control a weaker population. The two genocides didn't start for the same reasons; they both
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When they would capture the Hutu and the Tutsi and if they didn't kill them they would keep the and torture them. Although they tortured the people they would keep the women of the tribes and torture them and have sex with them after they kept the women for a week or two they would kill them using machetes or clubs. When it comes to the holocaust they lost most of their rights and couldn't do anything the Jews would be removed from their homes and moved to ghettos or be put in the concentration camps to be eliminated. The Germans would raid their houses and take all of their money and force them to march to convoys to transport them to the concentration camp or the ghettos. Nobody had anything if the Germans found you they would take your business no one could get married and most of the time everybody would be