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Page 1: Readings: Smith, et., 946-950. GENOCIDE IN 20 TH CENTURY Genocide had very specific form in 20 th century. Armenian Genocide had roots in late 19 th century

Readings: Smith, et

., 946-950

THE HOLOCAUST

READINGS: SMITH ET AL, 946-950

Page 2: Readings: Smith, et., 946-950. GENOCIDE IN 20 TH CENTURY Genocide had very specific form in 20 th century. Armenian Genocide had roots in late 19 th century

GENOCIDE IN 20TH CENTURY

Genocide had very specific form in 20th century.Armenian Genocide had roots in late 19th century but 1 ½

million were killed between 1915-1923

Used in concentration camps as well as mass deportations

Used Special Organization (Teshkilati Mahsusa) to organize killing

Turks claim it was an action against a bitter enemy during war

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RAPE OF NANJING

Japanese killed over 300,000 and raped between 60,000- 80,000.

Like Turks, claimed massacre was a necessary act against enemy combattants

Question: what is moral and immoral in war? Are 20th century wars different in the violence they enacted on civilians?

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Wanted to purify German (Aryan) RaceAfraid if intermarried and reproduced with other races, the Aryan race would degenerate.

In Mein Kampf, Adolph Hitler argued that it was necessary to exterminate Jews and other “inferior races”

NAZI POLICY—EXTREMES OF RACE-BASED THINKING

(EUGENICS)

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NUREMBERG LAWS AND KRISTALLNACHT

September 1935 Nuremberg Laws—laws

discriminating against the Jews, depriving them of

citizenship, prevent them from having sexual

contact with “Aryans”/GermansNovember 1938—

Kristallnacht “The Night the Broken of Glass” – Germans begin to put thousands of Jews in

“concentration” camps, where they were forced to labor for the Government

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EVENTS DURING THE WAR

Killing Intensifies

SS Einsatzgruppen (Action squads)

Mobile killing units

Firing squads murdered massive number of people

Buried them in mass graves

By 1941, the SS Einsatzgruppen had murdered 1.5 million people, mostly

JewsJanuary 20, 1942 the Wannsee

Conference in Berlin

The Jews were rounded up and sent to Labor and the Death camps.

3 million people were killed in Auschwitz alone.

At least 6 million Jews killed

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THE HOLOCAUST

European Jewish population fell from 9,739,200 to 3,505,800Also killed 5 million other undesirables (disabled, Slavs, gypsies, homosexuals, petty criminals, Jehovah’s Witness, communists).

After they were killed, the bodies were burned in large crematories, but many bodies still evident when camps liberated.

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United Nations Declaration on Human Rights, But:

Genocide in Rwanda

Genocide in Bosnia

Genocide in Kosovo

Genocide in Sudan

COULD IT HAPPEN AGAIN?


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