Genocide



** Ten Stages of Genocide: Nazi Germany ** Use this website to help you with examples []
 * ** Stage ** || ** Explanation in your Own Words ** || ** Example from the Holocaust ** || ** How it can be Avoided ** ||
 * **CLASSIFICATION** || Cultural distinction to create “Us and Them” differences based on such things as ethnicity, race, and religion. It may create opinions that some are better than others. || Propaganda depicted Jews as being a different and a more inferior species compared to Germans. They would live in Germany and wouldn't be addressed as German but as Jew. || To promote common grounds among all members of a group such as common language. Search for Ways that people are similar to avoid genocide. ||
 * **Symbolization** || Symbolization is when a demographic group is targeted by organizations and or are identified using articles of clothing Or any other way to identify them out of a crowd of people. || Jews were forced to wear yellow starsof David in order to identify them, and the swastika became the symbol of Jewish hatred since it was the emblem of the Nazi party. || Hate symbols need to be outlawed as well as gang clothing and tribal scarring. A country denying to assist in symbolization proves to be the most effective route. How will people know who to target if the symbols are not mandated? ||
 * **DISCRIMINATION** || This is when a dominating demographic group strips rights and creates laws against the target demographic group. || The Nuremberg Laws in Nazi Germany stripped German people of their citizenship and couldn't be employed in government positions or accepted in universities. || Discrimination should be outlawed, and individuals should be able to sue the state if needed. ||
 * **DEHUMANIZATION** || The dominating demographic group uses propaganda to claim and educate people into thinking that another race of people are not truly humans who will aid humanity and enemies to all people. || Hitler declared Jews to be the opposition to the Aryan race and that they were a detriment to society and were the ones responsible for the deteriorated economy. || Leaders should establish laws against hate speech and make Genocidal leaders banned from international travel. ||
 * **ORGANIZATION** || The state or highly organized radicals build and train an army in order to enforce their rule over the target demographic using violence and life or death threatening. || Nazi soldiers were trained in the government and were armed to the teeth. Concentration camps were built in order to accommodate the Jews that would be captured later on. || Leaders should be denied travel visas and embargoes for weapons and arms should be enacted. ||
 * **POLARIZATION** || Extremists begin killing and arresting the target demographic group when they violate unwritten rules against their kind. || Propaganda depicted Germans as exceptional people, with pleasant faces and prosperous lives. While Jews were depicted as ugly with deformed faces and the same clothes. || Moderates from within the group need to step up and address the situation and prevent the concept of a genocide from seeming like a proper course of action. ||
 * **PREPARATION** || When the dominant group plans the solution to eliminating/controlling the victim group. They enforce the "If we don't kill them, they'll kill us." Mentality. || Nazis decided the only way to use the Jews would be to force them into labor and at the same time begin eliminating them. || Need arms embargoes towards that country and also begin preparing to convict the leaders for violating Geneva conventions. ||
 * **PERSECUTION** || The victimized demographic is now identified, targeted, and now physically and mentally abused by the extremists and the Genocide begins now. || Jews were first put into ghettos where they lived a very uneventful and dreary life and were then moved into concentration camps where they were slaves until their deaths. || A General Emergency must be declared and the U.N. will mobilize to prevent further development in the Genocide. ||
 * **EXTERMINATION** || Since the target group has been dehumanized, the extremists begin "exterminating" their enemy's kind and now an official genocide is underway. || Armed Nazis managed concentration camps and killed what they considered so be unfit workers and people died of disease, starvation, exhaustion, etc. 6 Million of them. || Safe areas need to be established with armed defenses in order to protect the victim demographic. ||
 * **DENIAL** || The perpetrators of the genocide begin hiding the evidence of it, through getting rid of the bodies and denying committing the crimes and say that they brought it on themselves. || Concentration camps had mass graves where they burned the corpses of the Jewish victims in order to hide the evidence of their deaths even occurring. || Leaders need to be captured and then taken to court in order to be convicted and brought to Justice. ||

** Ten Stages of Genocide: Turkey ** (2/26/1914) @http://www.genocide1915.info/history/ || Leaders should establish laws against hate speech and make Genocidal leaders banned from international travel. || @http://www.anca.org/genocide/denial.php || Leaders need to be captured and then taken to court in order to be convicted and brought to Justice. ||
 * ** Stage ** || ** Explanation in your Own Words ** || ** Example from the Armenian Genocide ** || ** How it can be Avoided ** ||
 * **CLASSIFICATION** || Cultural distinction to create “Us and Them” differences based on such things as ethnicity, race, and religion. It may create opinions that some are better than others. || Armenians were antagonized by the Turkish for not only being Russian supporters, but for also being a Christian in a primarily Muslim land. || To promote common grounds among all members of a group such as common language. Search for Ways that people are similar to avoid genocide. ||
 * **Symbolization** || Symbolization is when a demographic group is targeted by organizations and or are identified using articles of clothing Or any other way to identify them out of a crowd of people. || People who practiced the Christian religion were immediately identified for their practices and were distanced away from society because of that. || Hate symbols need to be outlawed as well as gang clothing and tribal scarring. A country denying to assist in symbolization proves to be the most effective route. How will people know who to target if the symbols are not mandated? ||
 * **DISCRIMINATION** || This is when a dominating demographic group strips rights and creates laws against the target demographic group || The Turkish government aimed for the forced assimilation of Christians into the Muslim religion. Turkish people boycotted Armenian businesses and over 1,000 Armenian stores were burned down in the city of Diyarbakir (2/21/1914) || Discrimination should be outlawed, and individuals should be able to sue the state if needed. ||
 * **DEHUMANIZATION** || The dominating demographic group uses propaganda to claim and educate people into thinking that another race of people are not truly humans who will aid humanity and enemies to all people. || Police officers begin collecting data about all of the Armenians in the area and also the government begins a media censoring program- most likely to ensure that the hatred towards Armenians escalates successfully.
 * **ORGANIZATION** || The state or highly organized radicals build and train an army in order to enforce their rule over the target demographic using violence and life or death threatening. || By the ending of 1914, Turkish soldiers already organized extermination missions in Armenian communities and even killed Armenians within the military publicly to terrorize the Armenians (11/19/1914) || Leaders should be denied travel visas and embargoes for weapons and arms should be enacted. ||
 * **POLARIZATION** || Extremists begin killing and arresting the target demographic group when they violate unwritten rules against their kind. || Leaders of the Armenian nationalist party were arrested and Turkish people were looting, violating women and committed large-scale murder in Erzerum Province || Moderates from within the group need to step up and address the situation and prevent the concept of a genocide from seeming like a proper course of action. ||
 * **PREPARATION** || When the dominant group plans the solution to eliminating/controlling the victim group. They enforce the "If we don't kill them, they'll kill us." Mentality. || Arms are given to Turkey from other countries due to an alleged uprising of Armenian rebels as the reason. The War Ministry distributed explosives, rifles, and other equipment to Turkish forces. || Need arms embargoes towards that country and also begin preparing to convict the leaders for violating Geneva conventions. ||
 * **PERSECUTION** || The victimized demographic is now identified, targeted, and now physically and mentally abused by the extremists and the Genocide begins now. || The Turkish people as a collective claimed that the Armenians had allied themselves with the Russians, their current enemies, and thus they were enemies of the country and mistreated. (11/13/1914) || A General Emergency must be declared and the U.N. will mobilize to prevent further development in the Genocide. ||
 * **EXTERMINATION** || Since the target group has been dehumanized, the extremists begin "exterminating" their enemy's kind and now an official genocide is underway. || Mass murder of Armenians was run by the Turkish people and Turkish soldiers and then looted the belongings of their victims. (11/14/1914) || Safe areas need to be established with armed defenses in order to protect the victim demographic. ||
 * **DENIAL** || The perpetrators of the genocide begin hiding the evidence of it, through getting rid of the bodies and denying committing the crimes and say that they brought it on themselves. || Turkey denies existence of this Genocide due to lack of proper evidence as well as the fact that they honestly believed the Armenians were a threat. They went as far as to even make their own version of a genocide film made in America where the killings were justified.