Similarities Between The Holocaust And The Congo

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While both The Congo and The Holocaust have been major events in history, they both hold many differences and similarities within them. The Congo is not quite often taught in schools while The Holocaust is a major part of the academic curriculum in most schools. The reason is unknown since both events have changed history dramatically and caused a vast amount of lives to be lost. The Congo killed an estimated amount of ten million people and about 90% of prisoners of The Congo were severely punished physically and mentally including mutilation, starvation, hard labor, and rape. The Holocaust’s death toll is about six million people. The prisoners of The Holocaust faced similar punishments compared to the ones given during The Congo such as hard …show more content…

Adolf Hitler established concentration camps/labor camps for Jews or anyone who didn’t fit Hitler’s “image” of the perfect German. Hitler’s main goal during his supremacy was to make Germany the perfect country filled with the perfect citizens while Leopold’s main goal was to extract as many resources (mainly rubber) from the land as he possibly could. Both The Congo and The Holocaust had very similar endings. The end of The Congo consisted of the government declaring that King Leopold’s actions were inhumane and that he had to descend from his ruling. The Holocaust was ended by the government raiding the camps and forcing Hitler to flee the country where Hitler supposedly committed suicide. The leaders of The Congo and The Holocaust were both white and from European countries. Because of their ethnicity, this ultimately set the foundation for white supremacy in history. While both The Congo and The Holocaust have many differences and similarities, they both have affected history in major ways and still effect the world we live in

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