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Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Racism

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.

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Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Racism

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  1. Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Racism

  2. Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Racism Ancient Genocides The Armenian Genocide The Holocaust Apartheid Rwanda Ethnic Cleansing in Yugoslavia Darfur

  3. 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

  4. 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?

  5. 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.

  6. Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Racism • How does genocide affect societies, groups, and individuals?

  7. “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” --Edmund Burke

  8. Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Racism Ancient Genocides

  9. Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing: Ancient Genocides • Deuteronomy 7 and 20 • Joshua 6 and 8 • Thucydides – The History of the Peloponnesian War – Chapter X

  10. 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?

  11. 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?

  12. 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?

  13. 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?

  14. 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?

  15. Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Racism The Armenian Genocide

  16. Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing: Armenian Genocide • Readings • DPs: Europe’s Displaced Persons • Fires of Hatred

  17. 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?

  18. 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?

  19. 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?

  20. Armenia

  21. 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?

  22. 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?

  23. 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

  24. Armenia

  25. Armenia • Removal of the bodies from the streets of Gacata

  26. Armenia • Massacres of Christians in Turkey

  27. Armenia • New massacres in Armenia – Mobilization in Greece

  28. Armenia

  29. Armenia

  30. 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?

  31. Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Racism The Holocaust

  32. 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, 19th century ideas about race and nation, and Nazi dehumanization of the Jews and other victims. • Readings • DPs: Europe’s Displaced Persons • Fires of Hatred

  33. 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”?

  34. 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."

  35. Anti-Semitic Propaganda • This is the cover to the most infamous issue of DerStürmer, 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!”

  36. Foundation for Genocide • What is the definition of the word holocaust? • What was the Holocaust? • Which groups did the Nazis include in the Holocaust?

  37. Foundation for Genocide • Free Saxony from Marxist trash! • 1930 or earlier - poster for a provincial election in Saxony

  38. Foundation for Genocide • What was Kristallnacht? • What was its purpose?

  39. 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?

  40. Foundation for Genocide • How were individuals identified in European cities? • What steps were taken by the Nazis to implement the “Final Solution”?

  41. The Ghetto

  42. Transport

  43. Distribution of Labor and Death Camps

  44. Auschwitz-Birkenau

  45. The Auschwitz Death Camp • What did the “selection” process consist of? • Why were the prisoner’s heads shaved upon arrival at the camp?

  46. 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

  47. 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?

  48. The Auschwitz Death Camp • What conditions existed within the camps in terms of accommodations? • How were prisoners treated?

  49. The Psychology of the Camp • Three stages or periods of camp life • Admission • Entrenchment in camp routine • Release and liberation

  50. The Psychology of the Camps • What was the mindset of a newly admitted prisoner to the camp?

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