“Genocide,” a term used to describe violence against members of a national, ethnical, racial or religious group with the intent to destroy the entire group (History.com Staff, 2009). According to The Borgen Project it indicates that genocides has several stages. The stages of genocides are: Classification, Symbolization, Dehumanization, Organization, Polarization, Preparation, Extermination, and Denial. Classification alludes to a division of the populace into racial, religious and ethnic divisions. Symbolization alludes to naming the arranged gathering. The gatherings partitioning society are distinguished by a specific name, dialect, kind of dress, outfits or religious symbol. Dehumanization, as the word recommends, is a procedure by which a specific gathering is set apart as sub-human. This incorporates portraying them as creatures or disease. Organization alludes to the arranging of activity, as genocide requires both aggregate activity and gathering recognizable …show more content…
This act of genocide was called the Holocaust. The Holocaust was the mass murder of six million Jews and a large number of other individuals paving the way to, and amid, World War II. A large portion of the casualties were executed on the grounds that they had a place with certain racial or religious gatherings which the Nazis needed to wipe out. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum The Nazis likewise killed government officials, exchange unionists, columnists, instructors and any other individual who stood in opposition to Hitler. Because of this in 1948, the United Nations declared genocide to be an international crime. (The Holocaust Explained, 2011) The Nazis did not act alone. They were bolstered and helped by individuals from inside the nations they possessed crosswise over Europe. Most nations remained by while the Nazis and their assistants completed the mass murder of the Jewish