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Genocide
Humanities 10
supplemental unit for Night
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Terminology – define it in your notes
• What is prejudice?
• What is a stereotype?
• What is a scapegoat?
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prejudice
• An attitude of close-mindedness which allows a
person to prejudge another negatively without
any knowledge of that person. Prejudice is
frequently based on emotion, not on reason or
fact.
• It is the hatred one feels towards another
person for no concrete reason.
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stereotype
• A generally accepted opinion or fixed notion of
a person that is believed without investigation.
It generalizes a person’s character by labeling
him/her, refusing to view a person as an
individual, only as a type of person.
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scapegoat
• a person, member of a group, peer, ethnic or
religious group, or country who is singled out,
unfairly blamed and who receives negative
treatment for some misfortune.
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What is genocide?
• What do you think?
– Define it in your own words on your paper now
• Discuss it with your partner to compare notes
– If you like something your partner mentioned, add it
to your own definition.
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Genocide defined:
• The term 'Genocide' was coined by combining the
Greek word 'genos' (race) with the Latin word 'cide'
(killing).
• Genocide as defined by the United Nations in 1948
means any of the following acts committed with intent
to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial
or religious group, including:
– (a) killing members of the group
– (b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the
group
– (c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life
calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or
in part
– (d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the
group
– (e) forcibly transferring children of the group to another
group.
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What does this really mean?
• If the formal definition is confusing, think of
genocide as the deliberate destruction of a
social identity.
– A closer to home example might be this fictional
situation:
• Evil no good “Royals” somehow convince the Mountlake
Terrace and Lynnwood community that the Hawk should
be eliminated from existence. All laws are changed so
that anyone who wears hawk insignia can be
discriminated against. Violent acts against those who
wear the hawk symbol are not prosecuted, so that no one
ever wears it again. This is genocide.
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Is Genocide a new thing?
• Unfortunately, the practice has been used
repeatedly throughout history:
– The bible references multiple examples of genocide
– The Roman Empire (Julius Caesar and the Gauls)
– Genghis Khan
– Christopher Columbus
• Native American tribes
– Australia
• This brings us to one of the most frequent
worldwide timeframes of genocide: The 20th
Century
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Genocide in the 20th Century
• Your task: Research and become familiar with
the 20th century examples of genocide. What
similarities do they have? Can you see the
development of the various stages of genocide?
– Armenians in Turkey
– Stalin’s forced famine
– The Rape of Nanking
– The Nazi Holocaust
– Pol Pot in Cambodia
– Rwanda
– Bosnia-Herzegovina
– Darfur in the Sudan
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2010 Final Exam
• Teaching genocide is one of my most difficult
challenges
– How do you talk about hatred at this depth?
– How can we look at this and then move on?
• Can we do more? What is being done out there?
• How can this be prevented? It is still happening now
– The bottom line – you must make contact with
someone outside the walls of Mountlake Terrace
about this issue or the issue of hate/ hate
prevention in general
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Presentation possibilities
– Present your findings on genocide in one of the
following ways
• An action plan – What can we do here at school to
prevent this based on your own ideas and what other
people are doing?
• A research model – This is what other people are doing
and this is what they said about their program
• What counts as ‘contact’
– Email a person, an organization, a website to find out more
information
– Talk to someone over the phone about their work
– Interview someone and tape it
– If local, go visit and document your work
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The 8 stages of genocide
• Stage 1: Classification
– “us and them”
– Something is used to
separate the groups in
question
– Usually falsified or
bogus
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Stage 2: Symbolization
– Hate symbols and
language are developed
to continue the separation
– “Untermensch”
means sub-human
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Stage 3: Dehumanization
Hate crimes and
propaganda
- 1935 Nuremburg Laws
:Jews forbidden from
marrying non-Jews
:Strips Jews of their
German citizenship
- 1938 Kristallnacht
“Crystal Night” or “The night of
broken glass”
-91 Jews murdered
-267 synagogues burnt down
-1000’s of homes and
businesses destroyed
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Stage 4: Organization
– Special army or police
units created
– Organized movements
against the targeted
groups
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Stage 5: Polarization
• Pushing groups to the
margins of society as far
away as mainstream as
possible
• ghettos
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More images of the famed Warsaw ghetto
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Stage 6: Identification
• Victims are separated or
identified by their
particular identity
through further
segregation or
humiliation
• Concentration camps
• Forced relocations
• Further restrictive laws
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Stage 7: Extermination
• Adolf Hitler to his Army
commanders, August 22,
1939:
– "Thus for the time being I
have sent to the East only
my 'Death's Head Units'
with the orders to kill
without pity or mercy all
men, women, and
children of Polish race or
language. Only in such a
way will we win the vital
space that we need. Who
still talks nowadays about
the Armenians?"
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•
gas chamber
• crematorium
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Stage 8: Denial
– This stage is usually
combined with an
international response
– “We were only following
orders”
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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_histor
y
• http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genoc
ide/index.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide
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