Why Kill Your People

Martel Moore

       In 1912 a mixture of killings, atrocities, and ethnic cleansing for more than 1.5 million people, these wars were called The Balkan wars. During the wars a massive population took place and brought an ethnic separatism. Religion freedom brought the Ottoman great joy while many like the Serbs, Bulgarians, Greeks, and the Armenians felt differently about the freedom of religion. When the people of the Islamic community thought non- Muslims were inferior it caused great tension between the two.  When the Ottoman realized the Armenians were becoming powerful and rich at the same time. They took extreme precaution and felt punishing the Armenians would be the only way. After refusing to pay taxes, an attack was sent by the Sultan to kill them, which a caused a terrifying massacre. This did not fit the idea of genocide or ethnic cleansing. The Armenian massacre of 1915 was form of first degree murder that resulted in directives of a ruling party. The actions of the Ottoman government carried out a lot during this time. The situation between the Greeks was very similar to the Armenians. The Greek army and their citizens fled from the Turks, during this flee many had to crowed into buildings in Smyrna. Robber and looters killed many, while the Turks wanted the Greeks out. While in Smyrna a fire broke out killing and wounding over 150,000. While some say the Turks did not want to massacre the Greeks, others can say differently.
     
        In chapter 2 the attack on the Jews will always go down in history. In the Nazi world the Aryan and the German showed great position, health, and natural. While Jews were looked as fake, a liar, and everything evil. They were considered by the Nazis as the worst people to live with, which they needed to be exterminated. Nazis believed the Jews posed a threat of serious contagion to all healthy nations. They also strongly believed that Jews were keep people back, especially the Germans from reaching their goals. Many believed genetically you were inclined towards criminal behavior, congenital diseases, or to even have certain mental illness. They want to isolate certain races from breeding with others because it would bring the nation down as well as bring a big weakness to different races. The race could be purged of its impurities and the modern state would not have the burden of caring for unproductive individuals. In the hands of the Nazis, eugenics became a dangerous tool for ethnic cleansing. The German nation would have to be cleansed by removing alien elements, in particular the Jews from the country. Even with their own race, the Nazis sterilized the mentally ill so they couldn’t have children and they took handicapped infants off life support or used lethal injections to kill them. They targeted 65,000 people to kill to clear clinics for German settlers.