How Does Genocide Affected Our Society

When thinking about genocide people typically believe it is extremely harsh and hard to believe it even took place several times in the past. Genocide or large killings of people who want to stand up for what they believe in has been a very popular, yet horrible event that has been ongoing for generations. Genocide comes a long way, especially in our World History, and constantly has impacted people in various ways. These mass killings are expanded in history, and we wonder why we have not stopped them? I believe one of the most known problems was when Adolf Hitler began the Holocaust and killed over thousands of Jews. Genocide whether we like it, or not impacts us because it tends to shape the way we work, and discuss major problems in our society. It impacted us in a way that caused us to change our relationships with other countries, humiliation, land and property rights, and human diversity. One of the main ways genocide can start is by having a

Jews were different to the Germans in several ways; they were characterized by their physical traits and their Jewish religion. Hitler believed that there should be a way to purify the Christian German race, so Hitler pursued the minds of the Germans that they were a pure race and they had to remove anything that was not German. The following years consisted of Jews being sent to concentration camps in intent to purify the German race. The Holocaust began in 1939 when the Germans established the ghetto (concentration camps) and started to mistreat the Jews. Jews were held in these tight spaces that contained diseases and often would get starved to death. A Jew in the past could have died several ways either by disease, open cuts, starvation, being gassed, non-stop work all day or suicide. Finally, on May 9, 1945 the Soviet Union considered this “Victory Day” due to the war and killing of Jews