Genocide: The Holocaust And Rape Of Nanking

Genocide is the word derived from word “Geno – derived from the Greek word for race or tribe” and “Cide – derived from Latin word for killings”. Raphael Lemkin first introduced The word Genocide. Lemkin was a Polish – Jewish Lawyer. Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy the nation, nationals, racial or religious group, such as:

A) Killing of members of group

B) Forcing them in a manner to bring physical destruction

C) Not allowing rather preventing births of child within the group

D) Causing mental trauma in that group

Genocide has occurred in:

Armenia – 1915 – With over 1.5 million deaths were recorded

Central Europe (Holocaust) – 1939 – 1945 – With over 6 million deaths were recorded

Cultural Revolution

Holocaust is where Nazi’s took over Europe during World War II and Rape of Nanking is the Japanese invaded China. These are the most painful reminder of cruelty of human nature. During Holocaust, under the leadership of Adolf Hitler captured Poland and made Polish Jews out of their homes and were put into Ghettoes. Later he captured places like Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, France and Luxembourg. All Jews were transported to the Ghettoes in Poland. In late 1941, the Germans began to transport People in the polish Ghettoes to the concentration camp where the sick, the young and the weak were put to death by gassing. Gas used for this mass destruction was Zyklon – B (Pesticide).

During the Rape of Nanking many war and crime against humanity happened where the Japanese soldiers gathered all the Chinese women and put them in the barracks who were raped on a daily basis. Women ages varied from little girl to 80 year old. The Japanese used the prisoners of war as an object to play where Japanese officer vied to see who killed the most and has highest body

There are many times when the number of deaths is incomprehensible in thinking of each number as a human being, for example 6 million people dead in Cambodia. It is very easy to think of this as a statistics as contrary to the deaths of individual human beings. The death tolls are unimaginable. This is the reason other people like us empathize and feel great compassion for the victims of Genocide, as an mere spectators we have no idea of the impact on the countries society, and the surviving mental state as far as loss of human lives, hope, dreams, passions and love go.

The resulting issues from the Genocide can often make the act itself that much worse. Such issues involves homelessness, emotional and identity lost and displacement, a lack of closure after incident, especially if the Genocide has not been acknowledged by the responsible parties or other important group, which can lead to long term emotional