HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS
HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS
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The rise of extremist groups in power led to the attempted destruction of specific populations, notably the Nazi killing of the Jews in the Holocaust during World War II, and to other atrocities, acts of genocide, or ethnic violence.
The rise of extremist groups in power led to the attempted destruction of specific populations, notably the Nazi killing of the Jews in the Holocaust during World War II, and to other atrocities, acts of genocide, or ethnic violence.
Key Words:
Key Words:
Genocide
Holocaust
Armenians
Ethnic cleansing
Rwanda
Balkanization
International Criminal Court
Pandemic
Bosnia
Mass Death:
Both Military & Civilian:
Mass Death:
Both Military & Civilian:
The Armenian Genocide
The Armenian Genocide was the systematic mass murder and ethnic cleansing of around 1 million ethnic Armenians from Anatolia and adjoining regions by the Ottoman government during World War I.
The Jewish Holocaust
The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its allies and collaborators.
The Nazi camp system expanded rapidly after the beginning of World War II in September 1939, as forcThe ed labor became important in war production. So after, the camps spread all over the Nazi territory.
Auschwitz II-Birkenau gatehouse; the train track, in operation May–October 1944, led directly to the gas chambers.
It was mostly the jewish populations were placed into camps, but there were other groups that were prisoners, such as political dissenterxs, homosexuals, mentally challenged, & physically handcapped people.
Auschwitz concentration camp was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust.
20th Century Genocides:
Act committed with intent to destroy, in whole/part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group which is viewed as the evilest crime against humanity.
Examples of 20th-Century Mass Atrocities
The rise of extremist groups into power led to the attempted destruction of specific populations in acts of ethnic violence & genocide. The goal of these mass murders, or 'ethnic cleansing', was often to destroy a group of people to remove them from a population.
Examples of 20th Century Genocides:
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