It goes hand in hand with the Jewish Holocaust as it was also directed by Hitler. A supplementary decree to the Nuremberg Laws was issued in November 1935, classifying Romanis, or Gypsies, as "enemies of the race-based state," therefore placing them in the same category as the Jews. So, in some ways, the fate of the Roma in Europe paralleled that of the Jews in the Holocaust. It is estimated that between 220,000 and 500,000 Romani were killed by the Nazis and their collaborators—25% to over 50% of the slightly fewer than 1 million Roma in Europe at the time. Nowhere near the number of Jews killed,
Have you ever wondered why holocaust war criminals were imprisoned? Many holocaust war criminals would will be remembered for the acts they committed, the reasons behind their crimes and the consequences they faced. After World War II, in the beginning winter of 1942 the Allied powers announced their determination to punish the holocaust war criminals. The allied powers issued the first joint of declaration to prosecute those responsible for their crimes against humanity. "The
Throughout the semester this class has presented information that wasn’t known to me, for example that there is a specific definition for the term genocide, there are deeper reasons into committing genocide, and that there are other genocides besides the Holocaust. With my new found knowledge I plan on discussing and answering two question that have been presented after completing this course, first, while studying the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, and the Rwandan Genocide, one has to notice that all three incidents take place during times of war whether from outside aggressors or internally between one another, so one must question why are genocides (these in particular) more likely to occur during wartime? The next question that must be answered deals with the first-person accounts of these acts and how the accounts reflect the events that took place? Do the recollections help explain what truly took place, are they truly accurate or do they contradict anything we’ve learned and introduce more questions than they answer. To ultimately answer the first question of why genocides tend to take place during times of war, one has to think that there is some type of advantage of committing genocide during times of war and for this question I have decided to compare two cases to help answer this question, The Holocaust and The Armenian Genocide.
World war two was one of the most horrifying times. For Pavel Feiman and Krystyna Chiger that's true. They were both in the Holocaust. They both tried to escape death. Pavel couldn't escape.
Even before WWII began, gypsies faced persecution; for example: “When the Nuremberg laws were passed in September of 1935, the interpreters of these decrees applied to gypsies as well as jews” (Smelser 2). Identical to Jews being deprived of their civil rights, the Nuremberg laws took away gypsies rights. This act of including gypsies in the Nuremberg laws shows that nazi’s saw gypsies as a threat to the Aryan race, causing gypsies to be first non-Jewish group affected by the holocaust. During the holocaust gypsies faced vast amounts of persecution during the holocaust, for instance: “An estimated of some 20,000 gypsies showed that over 90% should be considered mischlinge (of mixed blood). This solved the problem of having to deal with an Aryan minority” (Smelser 2).
Some preconceived ideas I have of Genocide/ Holocaust is that first of all millions of Jews were persecuted and murdered of out pure hatred and racial discrimination. Along with them died other minority groups such as Gypsies, homosexuals, and the handicapped all simply because there were inferior and not pure-blood German or healthy. Hitler's reign and acts of terror were extremely horrific as well as a tragic time in history. When I think of the terms Holocaust and Genocide, I think of the concentration camps and all the people who died in there of starvation, disease, overwork, or cold-blooded murder by a Nazi.
Genocide is the mass killing of people, usually for religious reasons, but now genocides happen mostly because no one can agree. An infamous example of one of the worst genocides was the killing of Bosnian-Muslims in Yugoslavia. After provinces like Slovenia and Croatia decided to secede from Serbia because of religious reasons, Serbia decided it was time to take action. After examining the political power, death rates, and the sole reason for the Yugoslavia murders, it is clear that the Serbian genocide is one of the worst in history. By looking at how the country was ran, the sheer panic seen in all of the government officials, and the amount of war and lives ruined, it is clear that the Bosnian-muslim genocide in Yugoslavia will always be
Roma people, rather than Jews, were victims of the Gypsy raids, which took place annually during the Nazi rule and were heightened in 1939, the historian Bársony affirms that “The new deputy-lieutenant in 1939 doubled the number of Gypsy raids in his jurisdiction, thereby forcing neighboring counties to raise the number of their own raids as well.” Here, we are able to picture the high degree persecution that the Roma had during the Holocaust as the Nazis were subjecting Roma to Gypsy Raids in order to capture them. This shows how the Nazis operated on a high point to be able to capture the Roma population and take them to concentration camps. When we see that the number of Gypsy Raids are being doubled in 1939 we see the extent in which the Nazis are willing to capture the Roma and take them to concentration camps. Also, we perceive that Nazis are violating Roma’s human rights.
It is January of 1933, Adolf Hitler has just been appointed chancellor of Germany. Unbeknownst to the families of Jews and Germans alike, their lives are about to change. Some families are hardly affected by this change, but for most German and Jewish households their everyday lifestyle will never be the same. The German and Jewish families will be separated by an ever growing empire that threatens to change the world. With all of the changes that are separating these two groups, one of the most immense differences is how their children will be raised.
From 1939-1945, Holocaust refugees endured persecution, abuse, egregious yet, abhorrent living conditions, and starvation while living at concentration camps and in ghettos. from 1939-1945. A typical day in a concentration camp began with roll call, and breakfast. People would then assume their responsibilities in their designated job. The received no compensation for working.
The famine that happened in the Ukraine was genocide and one of the most traumatic ones. A famine is huge shortage of food; the Ukraine experienced a forced famine because of the Soviet Union, leader Joseph Stalin. The main background of the genocide is that the ‘man made’ famine was done to get rid of the Ukrainian pride and oppress the people by taking away their needed essentials (food/homes). The Holodomor was death from being hungry and starving. The Holodomor took place in all Ukraine.
The Holocaust was a horrific tragedy which started in January of 1933 and ended in May of 1945, the Holocaust was the mass murder of millions of people. The word was derived from the Greek word that meant Sacrifice to the Gods (Steele 7), also called the Shoan which is the Hebrew word for catastrophe (Steele 7). So many countries took place in this 12-year genocide, including, “Germany, Italy, Japan, Romania, Hungary, and Bulgaria, which were also known as the Axis Powers” (Steele 34). But, although there were all those countries they were all part of one larger group called the Nazis, were the ones who were killing all the different denominations of people. (Bachrach 58).
There were two crucial lessons I learned through my study of World History. Both of which will stay with me not only through my educational pursuit but with me through any field that I plan to pursue a career in. The first assignment that I have included is a set of notes that I took in World History. These were the notes taken that I planned to study off of to pass my upcoming exam. Being someone who was horrible at note taking and studying, I knew that this was my only option to passing the upcoming exam.
