The Forsaken Events of Genocide

After exploring “Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing In the Twentieth Century Europe” by Norman M. Naimark, he discussed how there were similar actions of genocide happening in several parts of Europe. Also from viewing the movie Hotel Rwanda, the main plot was focused on how one African group was known as being superior over the other. In detail, from the book in chapter four, “The Expulsion of Germans from Poland and Czechoslovakia”, Germans were known as being traitors to the Poles and the Czech populations and also known as minorities. The Polish and Czech governments made themselves feel superior by either getting rid of the Germans from first deciding to deport the German people to Eastern Europe. The Czechs decided to not give the Germans any rights, so eventually many schools and institutions were shut down. The Americans and the British were helping the Germans as much as they could, but eventually they complained about their domestic budgets were being wasted on housing and the foods that were being supported for the Germans in Czechoslovak. The Germans population rate was constantly declining because of the violence that was going on and the Czechs trying to get rid of the Germans. Czechs beat up Germans, shot at them, forced them to do life threatening tasks and the Czech showed no mercy.Villages were burned, women and children were raped and killed. Overnight the Czech militia raged through towns and randomly kill Germans at any time. Czechs and Poles wanted to demolish the Germans to make themselves feel as if they are the dominant nationality. This book relates to the movie Hotel Rwanda that was recently seen in class. In the movie, it showed how the Hutu African tribe was an anti-Tutsi militia.

Tutsi is another African tribe that was residing with people that were Hutu. The main character who was Paul Ruseabagina, also known as the famous actor Don Cheadle, was of the Hutu African tribe. His wife Tatiana was of the Tutsi African tribe. Since the Hutu militias were drastically killing the Tutsi people in their communities, Paul tried to protect his family and survive throughout the whole movie and not be killed by the Hutu African militia. The Hutu tribe feels as if they are superior to the Tutsi people. The Hutu militia also considers the Tutsi people as being cockroaches and traitors. The civil war and World War II were also causes from this. Since the Tutsi were considered as being cockroaches, it was similar to the Czech militia and the Germans situation from the book. In the movie, the United Nations and Red Cross were trying to help the Tutsi people survive from the genocide but, eventually the UN and Red Cross were not allowed to help them any longer and were not allowed to be involved with the genocide.

At the end of the movie, Paul finds a way to bribe the Rwandan Army General. Afterwards, Paul and his family were able to escape the massacre that was going on in their community. As for the Germans, only 800,000 people were able to work and mix with the Czech population and assimilate in order to survive their condition of dealing with genocide. In chapter five of the book, the plot is very similar to Chapter four, even though the genocide happened in Yugoslavia and more than one nationality was suffering in distress. Bosnians, Albanians, Serbs, and Croats were all experiencing genocide and was similar to the plot of the Tutsi and Hutu genocide, and chapter five from the book with the Poles and the Czech story of exterminating the Germans. Altogether, there were robberies, rapes, killings, and burned down villages, and etc. In conclusion, genocide occurred in many places of the world. Genocide is basically considered as another term for ethnic cleansing and to prove that there can only be one dominant race. 

 http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007822
 http://www.thenation.com/article/171484/brutal-peace-postwar-expulsions-germans#