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Miguel Lopez World History Per. 5, Group 9 The Holocaust

What happened in Germany was genocide. The holocaust began in 1933 when Hitler came to power in Germany and ended in 1945 when the Nazis were defeated by allied powers. In addition to the Jewish. Nazis targeted gypsies, homo-sexual, Jehovah’s witnesses, and the disabled for persecution. Anyone who resisted the Nazis was sent to forced labor or murder. It is estimated that 11 million people were killed during the holocaust. 6 million of them were Jewish. After beginning World War II, Nazis began ordering all Jews to live certain areas called ghettos. Jews were forced out there homes and moved into smaller apartments. They are also often shared with other families. The largest ghetto was in Warsaw with its high population reaching 445,000 in March 1941. The Nazis killed about 2/3rd of all Jews in Europe. 1.5 million of the victims were children. On April 1 1933 the Nazis initiated their first action against the German Jews by announcing a boycott of all Jewish business. The Nuremburg laws, issued on September 15 1935, began to exclude Jews from public life. The laws included a law that stripped Jews of their citizenship and a law that prohibited marriages and extramarital sex. Criminals were marked with green triangles, political prisoners with red, vagrants with black or in different camps they had brown triangles. Homosexuals were identified with pink triangles and Jehovah's Witnesses with purple ones. Non-German prisoners were identified by the first letter of the German name for their home country, which was sewn onto their badge. The two triangles forming the Jewish star badge would both be yellow unless the Jewish prisoner was included in one of the other prisoner categories. A Jewish political prisoner, for example, would be identified with a yellow triangle beneath a red triangle. In the 1930's, Hitler and his Nazi group led a campaign of spreading lies about the Jews. Josef Goebbels created a negative image of the Jewish people, blaming them for the economic and social problems of Germany and the world. The propaganda was intended to dehumanize the Jews by naming them an “inferior race,” to create anti semitism and lay the work for the elimination of the rights and freedoms of the Jews. The Nazis preached that Jews must be excluded from society, the media, and popular art forms such as films, posters and dramas to teach and project a distorted image of the Jews. The Jews were often told by Nazi soldiers that they were not worthy to live in normal towns so they put the Jews into Ghettos which were often dirty, disease ridden and low on food. This was the first polarization of the Jews. A group of people identify themselves as a greater being and describe the other as the weakest link. They also think they differ from other as us and them. They all prepared this genocide by putting people into Ghettos for easy access and making colored triangles for easy identification and punishment. Nazi’s prepared by making it easy for them to start killing based on the ethnicity that people are. Many people died in the holocaust. People like Jews, Romans, and homosexuals. 11 million people overall died because of this Holocaust. Up to 250,000 of Roma/ Sinti people died in this genocide and also up to 1.5 million kids died because of this genocide. The large amount of people died in this genocide making one third of Europe’s population gone. All these massive killings went with only one man’s command, Adolf Hitler. Holocaust denial is the claim that the genocide never happened. The Conference reviewed the global vision of the holocaust in which many people denied that the holocaust ever happened and that 11 million people died. They claim that only 2,700 people died because of World War I and that camps could not have hold that many people. The 8th stage which refers that all genocides are often denied that it never happened which in many cases it did. This is the reason why this genocide was really genocide since it fits all 8 stages. It also explains what happened to all 11 million people that died. They killed many races of people. They all got murdered by the wrath of Hitler. 55% of the victims were Jewish and on a different scale 14% of the victims were children.

Renzo romana

The holocaust What would you do if you saw the slaughter of thousands of people, would you stand by. Well the genocide I am going to be studying is the holocaust. It is bad for what happened to the Jews. This had all started off in Germany and had been lead by a man called Adolf Hitler. He had a vision of gemany being cleansed of homosexuals, Jews and gypsies. I think that the holocaust had been a genocide.

In 1943 the Germans had started to round up a certain group of people. The people that he had started to round up were homosexuals, gypsies, and Jews. Many of the Jews had started to believe that all the rules that Hitler had laid down would all eventually disappear and it would blow over. But little did they know he had some bad I store for them. Soon Jews had not been allowed in resturaunts, and public places. And so they had still believed that it would all end but soon Jews had started to lose there jobs and had been sent off to ghettos with horrible living conditions.

I think that this was a genocide because of the mass murder of Jews. It had been a genocide because the Nazi party had gone and tried to exterminate the Jews and over 6 million had died. And the Jews had started to do nutor women and to take ot there reproductive organs out to make sure that race never reproduces again. They also try to dispose of the Jews and are starting to burn them off. And the Nazis start to treat the people as if they are animals.

My genocide shows classification because of the Germans had started to make the Jews not go to public places and they wouldn't let them go. They had also done that to the gypsies and to homosexuals. That had madebother people hate them and to be scared of them. And the way the nazis had showed who were Jews or not they had put stars to identify them. They had also put tattoos on the Jews and gave them numbers.

The Nazis had dehumanized the Jews because they had tarted to put posters and destroyed store property and left hate messages. The Jews had been sent of to slums and been sent of to sleep in horrible conditions like were animals would sleep. The Nazis had ordered the Jews to enter into the ghettos. Then they had all been kept into the concentration camps. The Nazis had also controlled how much they ate.

The Germans had started to separate the men and women from eachother. The women and children had been separated, and the men had been sent somewhere else. The Nazis had also shown preparation by giving the Jews the tattoos to separate. They would also give the people there death sentence.

The horrible thing that happened was te extermination of Jews. It is a bad thing and they had gotten ride of them by burring them, shooting them, and experimentations. Thenazis tried to deny it was a genocide because it was a bad thig and they did not want to get in trouble with the state. They had tried to hide all of the stuff they had done. They tried to bury all the bodys there were to many of them and it was because of the burned bodies.

I think that this event was a genocide because it had the mass murder. And all of the stuff that would make it a genocide is because they had done all of the stages that makes it a genocide. That is why I think that this is a genocide.

I had gotten all my resources from the packets you gave us. Jazmin Reyes Armenian Genocide

“These caravans usually consisted of thousands of people”. In 1915 Armenians had been tooken over by Turkish. Armenians had become part of a genocide. What happened in Armenia was a genocide. The genocide was known as the “Young Turks”. Armenian people had gone threw a lot during this period of time. They had been killed, government had changed, and most importantly there lives had been destroyed. The Armenian genocide was a rough experience for each and every one of them. On April 24 of 1915 was the day when 300 Armenian leaders, writers, thinkers, and professionals in Constantinople (present day Istanbul) were rounded up and killed. That very same day in Constantinople 5,000 very poor Armenians were butchered in the streets and killed in their very own homes. Before that Mongol, Persia, Russians and Ottom (Turkish) empires fought on and off. All these countries had gone into war. Little by little they were recovering. Until 1915 when being under cover of the war Ottoman wanted to get rid of the Armenian population. They had different ways to get rid of Armenians even if that included going to the desert. The genocide had been well organized. Genocides can be a very powerful act. It can make a huge difference in ones life. The definition of genocide is following acts committed with intent, to destroy, in whole or part, a national ethnic, racial or religious group. The United States is not considered a genocide. Yes there is killing going on in the world but its not against a certain group or ethnicity. Never in the U.S has it been considered a genocide. First, of the 1st stage of genocide classification. Classification is when dividing people into groups. Having them separated by race, looks, cultural etc. Armenia had been classified. In Armenia they had been separated with other countries. For example Turks ruled the west Russians ruled and the east. Thus this stage does meet fit into Armenia because they had been separated. The 2nd stage of genocide is symbolization. Symbolization is a way to represent or distinguish a group. Based by its color, signs, and names. In Armenia people represented a group. They weren’t distinguished like Jewish were in the holocaust when they had to were a yellow star on there clothing. Thus this stage fits perfectly into this genocide. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">Secondly, the 3rd stage of genocide is dehumanization. Dehumanization is when an act that makes a human less than someone else. In Armenia people felt that they were less than others. They started to give up in life and feel nothing else but misery. Thus it does meet the stage because Armenians had felt like they had been nothing. The 4th stage of genocide is organization. Organization is when having a plot or plan being divided having a task set. In Armenia Turkish had plotted for Armenians to be separated by men, women, elderly, and children. Thus Armenia does fit in the stage of organization. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">Thirdly, the 5th stage of genocide is polarization. Polarization is when extremist drive the groups apart. Segregate two different groups of people to be unable to socialize or interact with each other. In Armenia people had not been allowed to interact. They had been separated by age and depending how old they were that would be there job. If they were super old then they would be killed. Thus it does meet this stage requirement because people had been separated by age. The 6th stage of genocide is preparation. Preparation is when they are separated because of their ethnic or religious identity. When being part of the unwanted group everything is tooken away and identified by symbol. In Armenia and just like the holocaust had problems because of their religion and ethnic. Thus this stage does fit into not only the Armenian genocide but the Holocaust too. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">Lastly, the 7th genocide is extermination. Extermination is a quick mass killing legally called genocide. Killers would call it extermination because they aren’t full victims. In Armenia between 1915 and 1923 the western part of historic Armenia was emptied of Armenians. The government system “Young Turkish” had gotten rid of every Armenian possible. Thus this genocide fits not into only this genocide but every other genocide. The 8th stage of genocide is denial. Denial is when they try to hide the evidence that a genocide happened. The killer often tries to blame what happened. In Armenia the Turks tried to keep everything a secret. When they did massive killing it would be done in the desert so no one actually knew. They wanted to blame it on the war that was going on before that. Thus this genocide fits in this stage because Turks did not want people to know what was going on. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">All in all, each stage of genocides fit into the county Armenia. Armenia even had things in common with the Jewish Holocaust. Both of them adhere to an ancient religion. A new democracy started during that period of time. Both had been surrounded by enemies. The United States of America had paid it respect to this genocide and the others too. We will never know how it feels to be part of a genocide. It is very traumatizing and bad time for people when they have gone threw it. It has greatly help us to not let people over rule

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">Eddie Chavez Group 7

Ever wonder what genocide could be? What happened in Germany “The Holocaust” was genocide. What they did too the Jews/homosexuals etc. were just Inhumane. The Holocaust was indeed genocide because it was cruel, evil and inhumane. The Nazi party had power over Germany in 1930s-1945 and they believed that Jews were just a nasty almost animal like type of humans. They started classifying all Jews. Put them into Concentration camps and killed them. That was just cruel and very evil. The holocaust relates to the definition of Genocide because the Nazis did mass killings, classified the Jews, Separated them from everyone etc. The Nazi tried to exterminate all of the Jews. They destroyed villages and conquered almost all of Europe and tried to kill all Jews. The first stage of Genocide is Classification. This means, they classify them by looks, culture, religion, etc. The Holocaust relates to this because the Nazi’s classified the Jews. They made them wear the star of Davis to know who was a Jew. When they wore it, it showed that the symbol had meaning. They were Jews and this is called Symbolization. They did this to symbolize them too know who was a Jew and too specify them. So they knew who was who. The Third stage of Genocide is Dehumanization. What this means is making a person less then what they are, treat them as an animal. The Holocaust did this in a cruel way. They killed Jewish babies; they experimented on the Jewish women’s as if they were lab rats. And, they treated every Jew like they were nothing. The Nazis would kill Jews who were 50 years or older and they would kill the babies because they had no use for them. The Fourth stage of Genocide is organization. This means that they organized and they did this in the Holocaust. They organized the Jews. Put them into camps and killed them. They put some to work hard labor. The work they had to do was just unbearable and it was hard to live in the camps. People would end up looking like a skeleton in the camps. They were being starved. The Fifth stage of Genocide is Polarization it’s when they divide groups. They did this indeed in the Holocaust. They put the Jews apart from the Nazis. They put them into camps. And, they couldn’t have contact with anyone else but the Jews. The Six stage of Genocide is preparation; it’s when they separate a group cause of their beliefs. Its similar well pretty much as segregation. They did this in the holocaust. No doubt. The Seventh Stage of Genocide is Genocide. This was very real in the Holocaust. They just exterminated a lot of Jews. They exterminated the babies and old people. Indeed it was Genocide in The Holocaust, it was terrible and hope that one day the Genocide in Sudan will end. It’s a very terrible thing. Its Dehumanizing and its just not right. Gladly no Genocide has happened in the US. And if it would had happened it would of changed the whole world. __ Nicolle Salazar __ __ 9/19/10 __ __ Period 5 __ __ Rwanda’s Genocide __

<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Imagine if people killed almost everyone you have ever known or people you meet. Then you had to watch these people get killed right in front of you. In Rwanda a mass killing of tons of people occurred. If you survived you are one lucky person, trying to hide was a hard thing to even try to them rated your house and looked through everything you had. What happens in Rwanda was genocide. In Rwanda there were ethnic groups called the Hutu and the Tutsis they first lived in peace everyone was allowed to get married with one another. Rwanda was one beautiful place until the Europeans turned the two groups against each other, telling the Hutu and Tutsis to kill one another. That when the genocide occurred, it started in 1956 and ended in 1995. The streets were filled with dead bodies; the people covered the bodies up with banana pill to avoid pictures being taking. In the Rwanda, genocide is related becuz the Tutsis thought they were better than the Hutus and treated them like slaves. The Hutu didn’t think it was right so there decided to kill the Tutsis before they did anything to them. They killed babies, mothers, and fathers in tons. There was almost no Hutu Left at the end. <span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">The 1st stage of genocide is classification. Classifications when you divide people into groups and separating them my ethnic, looks, cultures etc. in Rwanda the Tutsis were classified by the ethnic. Thus the 1st stage of genocide is melted. The 2nd stage of genocide is symbolization. Symbolization is when you take something and make it represent a group of people y signs, colors, names etc. In Rwanda they were symbolized by their names Hutus Tutsis. Thus this meets the 2nd stage of genocide because they were symbolized by their names. <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">The 3rd Stage of genocide is dehumanization. Dehumanization is when an act that a human less than everyone else. In Rwanda Hutus dehumanized the Tutsis making them believe that they had less power. Thus Rwanda does meet the 3rd stage because one group thought they were better than the other. The 4th stage of genocide is organization. Organization is when they have a plot or plan, being ivied and having a task set. In Rwanda the Hutus did have a specific way to organize and kill they knew each other very well so they killed according to tribe. Thus Rwanda does meet the 4th stage of genocide. The 5th stage of genocide is polarization. Polarization is when you separating two groups and don’t allow them to social or intersect. In Rwanda the Hutus and the Tutsis were not allowed to marry each other anymore or even talk to each other. Thus this Rwanda does meet the 5th stage of genocide. The 6th stage of genocide is preparation. Preparation is when they are separated because of their ethnic or religious identity. In Rwanda Hutus and Tutsis were separated because of their skin color. Thus it does meet the 6th stage of genocide. <span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">The 7th stage of genocide is extermination. Extermination is when a quick mass killing, the killers don’t consider victims as humans. In Rwanda the Hutus killed tons of people just because they didn’t think they were equal humans anymore. Thus the 7th stage on genie is meeting. The 8th stage of genocide is denial. Denial is when they hide all evidence that genocide happened. The killers often try to balance what happen on the victims, they burned all the bodies and make mass graves. In Rwanda the Hutus were not known after the genocide and no one knew who they were. Thus this does meet the 8th stage of genocide. In conclusion what happened in Rwanda is genocide because it meets all 8 stage of genocide. What happened in Rwanda should helps us prevent this from ever happening again and if It does we should help stop if at once. We don’t need tons of people dying for no real reason. <span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"> <span style="display: block; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">__ Castaneda Ricardo __ __ September 20, 2010 __ __ Group 9 __ __ Period 5 __

**__ BOSNIA __**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">Have u ever been striped from your rights? Well in Bosnia during 1992-1995 the Serbians disrespected the Muslims and Croatians. The Serbians disrespected them for the simple fact that they had more power over them. What happened in Bosnia was genocide. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> In Bosnia, after the Soviet Union broke up Bosnia was divided into three different areas, Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia. Serbia was better-armed and organized than Bosnia and Croatia. Serbia was able to take over 70% of the country in a few months. 102,000people died during the war. 55,261 were civilians, 47,360 were solders, 14,000 were Serbs, 6,000 were Croats, and 28,000 were Muslims. The Serbians targeted Muslims and Croats. During the war the Serbs moved Muslims men and boys into compounds where they were later moved somewhere else and executed. The Serbs killed about 200,000 in the genocide. The leader behind all this was Slobadon Milosevic. What happened during 1992-1995 in Bosnia was genocide. It was genocide because over 200,000 Muslims and Croats were killed, and I doubt it all was an accident. The Serbs also separated them by men and women. The first stage of genocide is classification. Classification is when dividing people into groups. Having them separated by race, culture, religion etc. In the Bosnia the male and females were separated and the Muslims and Croats were separated also. Thus means that they were separated. The second stage of genocide is symbolization. Symbolization is a way to represent or distinguish a group. Based by its color signs, or names etc. in Bosnia they weren’t symbolized because they didn’t make them wear a certain thing to recognize their race. The third stage of genocide is dehumanization. Dehumanization is when separating people by ethnicity race or religion and enslaving them or overpowering. That means that the Serbians, which had more power separated them by how they look. So they did dehumanize the Muslims and Croats. The fourth stage of genocide is organization. Organization is when having a plot or a plan. Being divided having a task set. Bosnia they didn’t plan it they just did it. They wanted full control of Bosnia. Thus means that were confident and knew what they had to do. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"> The fifth stage of genocide is polarization. Polarization is when they forbid intermarriage or social interaction. In Bosnia they just went out and killed anyone who looked Muslim or Croatian. Thus means that polarization wasn’t in their plan. The sixth stage of genocide is preparation. Preparation is when they are being sent to their death. They didn’t do anything they just shot them and invaded their property and took over. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> The seventh stage of genocide is extermination. Extermination is when they start exterminating their victims. The Serbians were killing the Muslims and Croatia because they wanted to rule the land. The eighth stage of genocide is denial. Denial is when they deny everything they did and they blame the victims. The Bosnian genocide is in fact genocide because the Serbian intentionally killed them. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">What happened in Bosnia was genocide. It was because they were separated, murdered, and over 200,000 people died. They dehumanized, exterminated, they denied, and they killed. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> Kimberly Ibarra World History,Per.5 Rwanda How massive are killings to be until its considered genocide? Cold blooded beasts killing innocents, for what reason? Two ethnic groups, relying on each other for survival now turned enemies more than 100,000 lives taken away from innocents simply because they belonged to a certain group. What happened in Rwanda was genocide. Rwanda is a tiny country between Congo and Tanzania and has been called “a tropical Switzerland in the heart of Africa.” Rwanda is mainly made up of two ethnic groups, the Hutus and the Tutsis. Tutsis being the traditional herdsmen and Hutus the crop growers. For 600 years these people have gotten along very well, working together, living near each other and marrying each other. Everything was great for the Rwandans until the Europeans invaded their land and convinced the Hutus and Tutsis of different lifestyles. Converting the Hutus crop growers into political maniacs. Hutus took advantage of their power and killed Tutsis and anyone who defended them. Wanting to demonstrate they were “right” Hutus would kill neighbors, co-workers, even people they were related to through marriages in the family. The Hutus were too blind by their desire to realize that what was going on in Rwanda was genocide. The definition of genocide is: the deliberate killing of a very large number of people from a particular ethnic group or nation. 100, 00 lives is a very large number. The Tutsis would be the particular ethnic group the definition is talking about. There were not random small murders in Rwanda. They were planned massacres killing with clubs and machetes. These people were victims of torture. With the definition of genocide and facts of the killings in Rwanda, it’s proven that indeed what happened in the small African country was genocide. The first stage of genocide is classification. Classification is when people are divided by looks, culture, etc. in Rwanda there were two main ethnic groups, Hutus and Tutsis. Thus Rwanda does meet the first stage if genocide because the people of Rwanda were split based on specific features. The 2nd stage of genocide is symbolization. Symbolization is when there is a way to distinguish certain groups from each other. In Rwanda they didn’t have a specific way to distinguish the Tutsis from the Hutus. Thus Rwanda does not meet the second stage of genocide. The 3rd stage of genocide is dehumanization. Dehumanization is when an act of making a human less to everyone else is committed. In Rwanda the Hutus dehumanized the Tutsis making then believe the Hutus had all the power. Thus Rwanda does meet the 3rd stage because one group thought they were better than the other. The 4th stage of genocide is organization. Organization is when the perpetrators have a plot or plan for the victims, and being divided and having tasks set. In Rwanda the Hutus didn’t have a specific way to organize and kill, they knew each other very well so they killed according to their tribe. Thus Rwanda does not meet the organization stage of genocide. The 5th stage of genocide is polarization. Polarization is when they are separate a couple from marrying and they can’t socialize or interact. In Rwanda, they weren’t forced to separate but they did turn on each other killing neighbors, co-workers, etc. Thus Rwanda does meet the 5th stage of genocide because the 2 ethnic groups didn’t socialize or interact. The 6th stage of genocide is preparation. Preparation is when people are separated because of their ethnicity or religious identity. There were also death lists created. In Rwanda there wasn’t preparation, it was chaotic! Thus Rwanda does not meet the 6th stage of genocide due to the fact that there wasn’t a specific ways for the Hutus to prepare their victims for death. The 7th stage of genocide is extermination. Extermination is where there is a mass killing that is legally called genocide. The killers call it extermination because they don’t consider their victims fully human. In Rwanda people were killed without mercy with weapons that were not necessarily meant for killing people. Thus Rwanda does meet the extermination stage of genocide because the Hutus tried their best to get rid of the Tutsis. The 8th stage of genocide is denial. Denial is when the perpetrators try to hide all the evidence that prove the genocide happened. The killers often try to blame the victims for what happened. They burned all the bodies and made mass graves. In Rwanda the Hutus, after realizing they were losing their power in the genocide, fled to Congo. They moved away, pretending nothing happened and tried to start their lives all over. Thus Rwanda does meet the final stage of genocide because the Hutus never wanted to admit the genocide occurred. In the event that happened on 1994 in Rwanda, Africa was definitely genocide. Europeans invading, trying to teach the Hutus and Tutsis a more modern lifestyle ended up destroying the strong bond both tribes had. Trying to prove they were on the “right” side Hutus stripped the Tutsis from their pride and murdered them. After all the killings and fighting, Hutus dared to deny.