The Armenian Genocide of 1915 was the Ottoman government's systematic extermination of its
minority Armenian subjects from their
historic homeland in the territory constituting the present-day Republic of Turkey. It took place during and after World War I and was implemented in two phases: the
wholesale killing of the able-bodied male population through massacre and
forced labor, and the deportation of women, children, the elderly and infirm on
death marches to the Syrian Desert. The total number of people killed as a result
has been estimated at between 1 and 1.5 million. Other indigenous and Christian ethnic groups such as the Assyrians, the Greeks and other minority groups were similarly targeted for extermination
by the Ottoman government, and their treatment is considered by many historians
to be part of the same genocidal policy. The Armenian massacre was a form of
first-degree murder and it was carried out as a consequence of the actions of
the Ottoman government, but most people feel that is was a basic form of
genocide.
Nazi’s were of the Aryan brotherhood. This was
a racial grouping commonly used in the
period of the late 19th century to the mid 20th century to describe peoples of European and Western Asian heritage. It derives from the idea that the original speakers of the
Indo-European languages and their descendants up to the present day constitute a
distinctive race or sub-race of the
larger Caucasian race, believed to have
blonde hair and blue eyes. Aryanism
developed as a racial ideology that claimed that the Aryan race was a master race. The
Nazis believed that the Jews were inferior, fake, and evil. Nazis wanted to
eliminate the Jewish population. They did this by isolating the Jewish people
and they believed by doing this it would force them to cease reproduction thus
ending that race. Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party. His mission was to
force the Jewish people to leave Germany and Europe. He deported many of them
to Palestine over 5 years. Hitler formed concentration camps during the
Holocaust and this served as a type of extermination of those not of the
“master race.” Both of these cases are depictions of genocide or human
extermination.
Soviets from the beginning tried to cleanse and
mobilize control of their citizens. They imported different races; Jews,
Germans, Muslims, Chinese, and Koreans. To do this police would control and
surveillance borders, population and workplaces. 496,000 people were deported
and many died during that process. The
Crimea peninsula became part of Russia in 1783. Crimean War was important stage
in Russian –Tatar relations; Russians held on to Crimea and started voluntary
emigration of 100,000 Tatars. By 1941 150,000 of the Tatars were either killed
or forced into exile.
Chapters one through three all discussed forms of people segregation, genocide, or exile. Most produced many deaths of the exiled people based on a higher power. The higher power usually consisted of a dominant race or group of people that believed in the same core values or beliefs, ethnic cleansing.
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