Umpteen numbers of times you have read about it and written many more times, yet choose this topic for my latest blog. While preparing for this, I was surfing and going through various related sites in the internet, the experience was very awful. Today’s topic is on genocide. The definition of genocide available in the dictionary is - Genocide, crime of destroying or conspiring to destroy a group of people because of their ethnic, national, racial, or religious identity.
Races are the main cause for most of the genocide. We Indian too encountered it during the1947 Partition of India. Millions of Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs were slaughtered based on being on the wrong side of the border. Estimates of total dead vary from 500,000 to 1000000.
Armenian Genocide.
During first World War I (1915–1918) in Turkey under the Ottoman authorities arrested and executed Armenian intellectuals and community leaders and thereafter, the Ottoman military uprooted Armenians from their homes and forced them to march for hundreds of miles, depriving them of food and water, to the desert of what is now Syria. Massacres were indiscriminate of age or gender, with rape and other sexual abuse commonplace. Armenian deaths is generally held to have been between one and one and a half million. Some other ethnic groups were similarly attacked by the Ottoman Empire during this period, including Assyrians and Greeks.
If you go through the pages of history book, there will be many such incidents but none of these can be compare with Nazi genocide under Hitler.
Holocaust, the almost complete destruction of Jews in Europe by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II (1939-1945). The leadership of Germany’s Nazi Party ordered the extermination of almost 6 million Jews. The word holocaust derives from the Greek holo (whole) and caustos (burned) and originally referred to a burnt offering, or a religious sacrifice that is totally consumed by fire.
The Holocaust was the worst genocide in history. Those who carried it out methodically created the means to efficiently round up and kill millions of people. At least 75,000 mentally and physically disabled people were also executed.
Main culprit behind the barbaric act
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was one of the most powerful dictators and his attempts to conquer territory for German brought about World War II. Hitler had decided to exterminate the European Jews. He caused the slaughter of millions of Jews, Sinti and Roma, Slavic peoples.
Hermann Göring’s
German field marshal Hermann Göring, second only to dictator Adolf Hitler in the Nazi government, stands trial before the International Military Tribunal, Germany, in 1945 and 1946. Göring was convicted of all the charges brought against him and sentenced to death by hanging. He committed suicide hours before his scheduled execution on October 15, 1946.
Reinhard Heydrich
As head of the German Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service), Reinhard Heydrich was asked by Nazi leader Hermann Göring to organize a “final solution to the Jewish question.”
Adolf Eichmann
Adolf Eichmann was entrusted by the leaders of Nazi Germany with responsibility for carrying out and coordinating the “final solution”—the murder of almost 6 million Jews during World War II. Eichmann vanished after the war, but in 1960 Israeli agents found him in Argentina, abducted him, and took him to Israel. An Israeli court convicted Eichmann of crimes against humanity, and he was hanged in 1962.
Dr. Josef Mengele
Nazi human experimentation: Apart from killing another distinctive feature the Holocaust was the extensive use of human subjects in medical experiments. The most notorious of these physicians was Dr. Josef Mengele, who worked in the Auschwitz concentration camp. His experiments included placing subjects in pressure chambers, testing drugs on them, freezing them, attempting to change eye color by injecting chemicals into children's eyes and various amputations and other brutal surgeries.
The Saviors
Oskar Schindler : German industrialist, who protected Jews from Nazi persecution during World War II. He saved more than 1000 Jews employees, when he moved his factory to Czechoslovakia, he made list of 1000 plus Jews employees whom he wanted to accompany him to his new factory. The list also known as “Schindler’s List”. In 1961 he was invited to Israel, where a memorial was unveiled on his 53rd birthday.
Many Jews, received help from the Poles; such rescue effort is one of the most remarkable features because ethnic Poles themselves were the subject to capital punishment at the hands of the German Nazi occupier if found offering any kind of help to a the Jews.
The relation between Jews and Arabs gone bad worst since partition of Palestine to create separate Jews and Arab state but a number of Arabs participated in efforts to help save Jewish residents of Arab lands from the Holocaust while fascist regimes controlled the territory. Khaled Abdul-Wahab from Tunisian, Taieb el-Okbi of Algerian Islah and Si Ali Sakkat Tunis are the few names who saved Jews from the Germans.
I cannot end it without mentioning her, so end with Anne Frank.
Anne Frank
After Germany invaded the Netherlands in 1942, the family spent two years living in a small hidden room in Amsterdam in order to elude capture by Nazi occupation forces. They were discovered in 1944 and arrested. Anne was sent to a concentration camp, where she died the following year. Her famous diary of the two years she spent in hiding was later found in the room where she and her family had lived. While staying in Netherlands she was betrayed by an individual but in spite of repeated investigations, the identity of her betrayer has never been established and remains one of the enduring mysteries.
Hitler wanted to rule the World and he considered Jews were more superior to Germans; therefore, he carried out the unbelievable sinister plots against the Jews. Every dictator from past or present has different story to tell.
!!!Blessed to be an Indian, largest democratic country of the World.!!!
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