Genocide Ethnic Cleansing and Racism Genocide Ethnic Cleansing
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Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Racism
Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Racism Ancient Genocides The Armenian Genocide The Holocaust Apartheid Rwanda Ethnic Cleansing in Yugoslavia Darfur
Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Racism Project Choose one of the topics from below and watch the movie and read a/the book associated with it. Write a research paper that incorporates ideas from the movie and book with outside primary and secondary source material. Holocaust – Schindler’s List; Diary of Anne Frank or The Hiding Place or Night Rwanda – Hotel Rwanda; Left to Tell or Shake Hands With the Devil South Africa – Invictus; Cry the Beloved Country http: //www. yale. edu/gsp/index. html
Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Racism • What is the United Nations definition of genocide? • What acts constitute genocide? • How does it differ from the charge “crimes against humanity? ” • What is the difference in the view of academics and human rights activists toward genocide?
Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Racism • How should genocide be dealt with? Should it be on a national scale, regional, or global? What is the role of transnational organizations such as the United Nations? • Write down your opinion now, and then compare it to your opinion upon completion of this unit.
Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Racism • How does genocide affect societies, groups, and individuals?
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. ” --Edmund Burke
Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Racism Ancient Genocides
Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing: Ancient Genocides • • • Deuteronomy 7 and 20 Joshua 6 and 8 Thucydides – The History of the Peloponnesian War – Chapter X
Genocide and the Bible • For what reason did God order the complete destruction of the cities of Jericho and Ai? • Is it possible to reconcile the atrocities performed in the name of God, and attributed to God in the Old Testament with the messages of love, compassion, and forgiveness found in the New Testament?
Sparta • For what reason did God order the complete destruction of the cities of Jericho and Ai? • Is it possible to reconcile the atrocities performed in the name of God, and attributed to God in the Old Testament with the messages of love, compassion, and forgiveness found in the New Testament?
Sparta • For what reason did God order the complete destruction of the cities of Jericho and Ai? • Is it possible to reconcile the atrocities performed in the name of God, and attributed to God in the Old Testament with the messages of love, compassion, and forgiveness found in the New Testament?
Roman Destruction of Carthage • For what reason did God order the complete destruction of the cities of Jericho and Ai? • Is it possible to reconcile the atrocities performed in the name of God, and attributed to God in the Old Testament with the messages of love, compassion, and forgiveness found in the New Testament?
Roman Destruction of Carthage • For what reason did God order the complete destruction of the cities of Jericho and Ai? • Is it possible to reconcile the atrocities performed in the name of God, and attributed to God in the Old Testament with the messages of love, compassion, and forgiveness found in the New Testament?
Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Racism The Armenian Genocide
Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing: Armenian Genocide • Readings – DPs: Europe’s Displaced Persons – Fires of Hatred
Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing: Armenian Genocide • Why was the Armenian genocide perpetrated? • How many people died in the Armenian genocide? • How did the Turks implement their plans?
Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing: Armenian Genocide • Why was the Armenian genocide perpetrated? • How many people died in the Armenian genocide? • How did the Turks implement their plans?
Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing: Armenian Genocide • Why was the Armenian genocide perpetrated? • How many people died in the Armenian genocide? • How did the Turks implement their plans?
Armenia
Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing: Armenian Genocide • Why was the Armenian genocide perpetrated? • How many people died in the Armenian genocide? • How did the Turks implement their plans?
Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing: Armenian Genocide • Why was the Armenian genocide perpetrated? • How many people died in the Armenian genocide? • How did the Turks implement their plans?
Armenia • The Turk who takes the fortunes (of others) • A saigneur is someone who makes another bleed – may be a play on words: seigneur means lord
Armenia
Armenia • Removal of the bodies from the streets of Gacata
Armenia • Massacres of Christians in Turkey
Armenia • New massacres in Armenia – Mobilization in Greece
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Armenia
Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing: Armenian Genocide • “We did not commit genocide we defended the country” • Why has the Turkish government continued to deny the Armenian genocide? • How does this denial affect the relationship between the United States and Turkey?
Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Racism The Holocaust
Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing: The Holocaust • Benchmarks – SS. 912. W. 7. 8 Explain the causes, events, and effects of the Holocaust (1933 -1945) including its roots in the long tradition of anti-Semitism, 19 th century ideas about race and nation, and Nazi dehumanization of the Jews and other victims. • Readings – DPs: Europe’s Displaced Persons – Fires of Hatred
Foundation for Genocide • Why were the Jews blamed for Germany’s defeat in World War I? • What role did the Armenian genocide play in Hitler’s plans to destroy the Jews in Germany? • What factors contributed to Hitler’s drive to implement the “Final Solution”?
Anti-Semitic Propaganda • • Cover: "When you see this symbol. . . " Page 2: "Remember what the Jews have done to our people. " The page reviews World War I, for which the Jews are held responsible, then states: "Now for the first time, World Jewry openly says what it wants: 'Germany must die!'" Page 3: "And you can read the Jew's solution in the booklet The War Aim of World Plutocracy. " A review of Kaufman's proposal follows. "The German Wehrmacht will ensure that World Jewry's terrible plan, as proclaimed by the Jew Kaufman, will never become reality. Page 4: "You must ensure through your behavior that Jewry never again has even the slightest influence on our people. "
Anti-Semitic Propaganda • • This is the cover to the most infamous issue of Der Stürmer, the 1934 issue accusing Jews of practicing ritual murder to secure the blood of Christians to use in Jewish religious rituals. The headline reads: Jewish Murder Plan against Gentile Humanity Revealed. The issue actually got banned by the Nazis after it had been out for a while, not because of anti-Semitic content, but because it compared alleged Jewish ritual murder with the Christian sacrament of communion. “The Jews are our misfortune!”
Foundation for Genocide • What is the definition of the word holocaust? • What was the Holocaust? • Which groups did the Nazis include in the Holocaust?
Foundation for Genocide • Free Saxony from Marxist trash! • 1930 or earlier - poster for a provincial election in Saxony
Foundation for Genocide • What was Kristallnacht? • What was its purpose?
The SS • Who were the SS? • How is it that the SS was able to inflict such punishment and torture on the prisoners within the camps?
Foundation for Genocide • How were individuals identified in European cities? • What steps were taken by the Nazis to implement the “Final Solution”?
The Ghetto
Transport
Distribution of Labor and Death Camps
Auschwitz-Birkenau
The Auschwitz Death Camp • What did the “selection” process consist of? • Why were the prisoner’s heads shaved upon arrival at the camp?
Survival in the Camps – “…on the average, only those prisoners could keep alive who, after years of trekking from camp to camp, had lost all scruples in their fight for existence; they were prepared to use every means, honest and otherwise, even brutal force, theft, and betrayal of their friends, in order to save themselves. ” » Victor E. Frankl
The Auschwitz Death Camp • What were the capabilities of the gas chambers and crematoria? • What agent was used in the chambers? – How does that particular agent kill? – What is its modern use?
The Auschwitz Death Camp • What conditions existed within the camps in terms of accommodations? • How were prisoners treated?
The Psychology of the Camp • Three stages or periods of camp life – Admission – Entrenchment in camp routine – Release and liberation
The Psychology of the Camps • What was the mindset of a newly admitted prisoner to the camp?
The Psychology of the Camps • What was the most common form of suicide in the camps? • How was it determined that someone was about to commit suicide? • How would other prisoners try to talk this person down from these thoughts?
The Psychology of the Camps • What was the second phase prisoners would go through after admission to the camps? • What actions manifested during this period? • How did the prisoners view time?
The Psychology of the Camps – “This body here, my body, is really a corpse already. What has become of me? ” » Victor E. Frankl
The Psychology of the Camps • How did the body and mind respond to the brutality of the camps?
“First They Came” – When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. – When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. – When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist.
“First They Came” – When they came for the Jews, I remained silent; I wasn't a Jew. – When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out. » Pastor Martin Niemoller
Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Racism Apartheid
Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing: Apartheid • DPs: Europe’s Displaced Persons • Fires of Hatred
Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Racism Rwanda
Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing: Rwanda • Benchmarks – SS. 912. W. 9. 3 Explain cultural, historical, and economic factors and governmental policies that created the opportunities for ethnic cleansing or genocide in Cambodia, the Balkans, Rwanda and Darfur and describe various governmental and nongovernmental responses to them. • Readings – DPs: Europe’s Displaced Persons – Fires of Hatred
Colonialism • Why did the Belgians divide those in their colonies into different groups? • What were the names and characteristics of those groups? – Why did these classifications make little sense? • How did King Leopold maintain control among the African colonists?
United Nations in Rwanda • How were the plans of the Hutu leadership communicated to the Interhamwe? • How were the Tutsis dehumanized? – Why was this approach taken?
United Nations in Rwanda • What event led to the withdrawal of a majority of UN troops?
United Nations in Rwanda • What event led to the withdrawal of a majority of UN troops?
United Nations in Rwanda • What event led to the withdrawal of a majority of UN troops?
United Nations in Rwanda • What event led to the withdrawal of a majority of UN troops?
Emmanuelle Ilibigazi
Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Racism Ethnic Cleansing in Yugoslavia
Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing: Ethnic Cleansing in Yugoslavia • Benchmarks – SS. 912. W. 9. 3 Explain cultural, historical, and economic factors and governmental policies that created the opportunities for ethnic cleansing or genocide in Cambodia, the Balkans, Rwanda and Darfur and describe various governmental and nongovernmental responses to them. • Readings – DPs: Europe’s Displaced Persons – Fires of Hatred
Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Racism Darfur
Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing: Darfur • Benchmarks – SS. 912. W. 9. 3 Explain cultural, historical, and economic factors and governmental policies that created the opportunities for ethnic cleansing or genocide in Cambodia, the Balkans, Rwanda and Darfur and describe various governmental and nongovernmental responses to them. • Readings – DPs: Europe’s Displaced Persons – Fires of Hatred
Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Racism United Nations Policy
Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing: United Nations Policy • Benchmarks – SS. 912. W. 9. 3 Explain cultural, historical, and economic factors and governmental policies that created the opportunities for ethnic cleansing or genocide in Cambodia, the Balkans, Rwanda and Darfur and describe various governmental and nongovernmental responses to them. • Readings – DPs: Europe’s Displaced Persons – Fires of Hatred
The Role of the United Nations • Why was the response of the UN in Rwanda so ineffective? • The UN provides the legal framework for prosecuting criminals • What is the four-step process followed by the UN when dealing with real or perceived genocides?
The Role of the United Nations • What should be done if the United Nations is unwilling or incapable of acting to stop a genocide? • Should a state like the US or UK step up and take leadership? • Should a coalition of local states “patrol its own neighborhood? ” • Should the UN, NATO, or some other transnational organization be counted on to step in?
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