Compare And Contrast Holocaust And Ukrainian Genocide

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Adolf Hitler once said, “Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it”. This is what Hitler said during the Holocaust, can anyone really fathom the magnitude of the lie. Genocide is when a government, or person. Tries to kill a certain group of people, because they want to “cleanse” the country. People that start a genocide have an idea that they are superior in one form or another. Many people are either scared of the person, or think that they (the person causing the genocide) are in the right. The Holocaust (which means death by fire) began in 1933 and lasted till 1945, It began with the Nazi party. Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazis, he believed that the Jews were inferior, and had to be exterminated. He began deporting Jews to concentration camps, to be killed; he was responsible for over 9 million people’s death. The Ukrainian genocide, holodomor which means death by starvation began in 1932 and lasted until 1933. …show more content…
The extermination methods were different in the two Genocides, in the holocaust people were sent to camps, to be gassed and burned. In the Ukrainian genocide, people were killed by starvation. The polarization of the Holocaust resulted in people being scared out of their minds, and given no hope about the future. In the Ukraine genocide, the people that would speak out were killed on the spot, so that no one would have any ideas of confrontation. The Nazi party wanted to rid the world of Jews, they thought that they had no reason to live, and they were inferior. Joseph Stalin was worried that the soviet influence was weakening, so he starved the people of Ukraine, to restore the soviets to power. What sort of person could have the mindset to kill millions of people, and not give it a second thought, who do you think would speak out, would
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