Eight Stages Of The Holocaust

So many years after the Holocaust, one might have heard about the Eight Stages of Genocide. A timeline of events used to categorize and point out stages in past genocides, to help prevent future ones. How can we compare tactics used by Nazi Germany to justify and begin their extermination of Jews–and other minorities, to events that have happened since then? We can use events in the Holocaust–and other genocides and racist actions taken by groups–to stand up against these violations, by going through the timeline of the Eight Stages of Genocide. The stages of genocide were first outlined by Dr. George Stanton of the Department of State in 1996 with the first one being classification. A common example of this in the world outside of the Holocaust …show more content…
“In New York, a man called a teenage girl a terrorist and pulled on her hijab while she was on the subway to school, NBC New York reported. Other moms in El-Haddad's circle are keeping pepper spray on them and taking more precautions as they move through the world, she said. She worries that misinformation and language that conflates Muslims with terrorists will have dire impacts on brown people in the U.S. and beyond.” This is the same kind of language and ideas used by the Nazi’s to brew hate to gain more political power. Like statements by Donald Trump where he promises to ban all Muslims from entering the United States, accompanied by thunderous applause. While it’s absurd to think statements like that are allowed to happen–with no substantial consequences and even a reward for such efforts a whole year later–the reason why a country would allow statements such as that be said and be held by a person in power, is probably because they want it. Lots of people at the top of the American food chain–like Donald Trump–benefit from manufactured …show more content…
The logic of the concentration camps was to find a use for Jews. Put them to work in tinsmiths or shoe shops until their usefulness has run out. Or just kill them for fun as seen in books like Maus where you can see examples of Nazi soldiers purposely setting up Jews for assassination. There isn’t much knowledge to extract from this stage, at least in comparison to the other ones. The average human doesn’t have to search much within themselves to begin revolting against the relentless murder of an entire race, and it’s not worth spending our time questioning why these people act this way. We can instead spend our time studying the repeated enforcement of concepts that have been previously outlined here. “The SS chose an ordinary insecticide, Zyklon B, as the lowest cost, most efficient means of exterminating the Jewish ‘vermin’. The Khmer Rouge murder weapons of choice were ordinary hoes and iron bars. The victims were tied together in a line, and forced to kneel at the edge of mass graves they had been forced to

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