Similarities Between The Holocaust And Armenian Genocide

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Throughout history we’ve seen many instances of millions of people being wrongfully persecuted. During the 1940’s one of the most famous examples of a genocide was the Holocaust which claimed the lives on many innocent people. This can be related to the Armenian genocide which happened to be only 30 years previously and took a significant amount of lives as well. Although at first glance both circumstances have a plethora of differences you and I will be quite surprised when we dive deeper into the similarities.

The holocaust and the Armenian genocide go hand in hand in many ways. During WWII, Germany’s leader, Hitler reinforced the idea that without Jewish people the world would be a better place. Without justifiable remarks, Hitler targeted Jews, gypsies, disabled people, and even Jehovah witnesses. This can be compared to the Armenian genocide since the Turkish government believed that the Armenian people were lower than the newly settled Muslim’s. In which the Turkish government made this prominent by taxing Christian’s higher than Muslim’s of the Ottoman Empire even before the genocide. …show more content…

To start under the rule of Hitler the killings were done solely on religious beliefs and racism and left European Jews with little to no rights and eventually the genocide. This differs greatly to the Armenians since they in fact had many rights and were usually well educated and cared for. The resentment from their Turkish neighbors and their ideas of the Armenian’s supporting Christian government and Russia would spark the flame that would claim ¾ of the Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire under the Turkish

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