Seven Genocides

Over the last few months i have been reading and studying eyewitness accounts from the seven different Genocides we studied in class, those Genocides are the Armenian, the Holocaust, Holodomor, Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, and the last one we will be studying Darfur. Along with the Genocides we also learned about the eight stages of genocide which are classification, symbolization, dehumanization, organization, polarization, preparation, extermination, and denial. These eyewitness accounts and survivor accounts are telling the stories and how the genocides really happened with no sugar coats abou them. The shocking truths about the genocides will tell you about how similar the seven genocides really are and just the little things that made them

When Adolf Hitler Came to power in January 1933 he used huge amounts of propaganda to immediately turn the Germans away from the Jews, but we all know that don’t we? In January 1933 Hitler was appointed chancellor, the head of the German government and every one believed that they had found a savior for the country. Now at the time Germany was still battling its way out of debt from WWI. In the first months of Hitler’s new title he forced organizations, political parties, and state governments into line and under Nazi leadership. For the culture? The completely put it under the control of Nazi power. He Shut down Trade unions forcing employees, employers, and workers into Nazi organizations. Along with all these things that Hitler did he started the propaganda about the jews saying that they were rats, evil, thieves, and no good for Germany. With that being said he made it a law that there was no longer allowed to be intermarriage between the Germans and the Jews, Jews could not teach Germans, could not cut their hair, could not be a doctor for them, and could not associate with them. Eventually the Jews were thrown into Ghettos, awful, awful Ghettos. Luckily this very brave young lady decided that it was important to save the Jewish religion and she started the Kindertransports. She would go door to door and get the names of the children, she

This resulted in 25% of the population being killed in just three short years. Along with taking everyone and throwing them into rice farms they only gave them ninety pieces of rice a day for their meal, this leads to deaths or starvation and death by malnutrition. All people living in Urban areas were evacuated into the farm lands to harvest rice. Everyone was expected to work and if you didn’t you were not given your ration of the food and it was up to your parents and family if they were going to give you some of the food or not. The men that were able to work did the harvesting and women and children able to work would do the “light” work around the farm area. In some cases not only did you not get fed if you were not able to work you were also taken away when they found out and killed. If you were caught keeping anything found, harvested, or caught you would be shot on the