We recently read Night and watched Hotel Rwanda recently in class and I would like to talk about how stuff like genocide still happens. Mainly genocide happens when something happens and people blame a certain ethnic group or religion. The definition of genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. Like the Holocaust and the Bosnia Genocide are examples of mass genocides. I think things like these always happen because people always blame other people for the actions that happen. Like in Hotel Rwanda, the Hutu blamed the Tutsi for the death of their president. So they decided to kill them as their punishment. As a result, the Hutu killed about 1 million Tutsi people leaving the bodies there. Then the Nazis killed about 12 million people and life in the concentration camps seemed horrible according to Night. "Not far from us, flames, huge flames, were rising from a ditch. Something was being burned there. A truck drew close and unloaded its hold: small children. Babies!" (Wiesel 32) It just crazy how many people have died to these causes. Can we do anything to prevent this stuff from happening? We could, but it would take a world wide effort to stop it in it's tracks. Get more people involved in trying to stop it. But no matter what, we are doomed to repeat this.
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The Holocaust was a tragic time in our world history. Many people of different ethnicities have died in this time period. Because of the horrible man Adolf Hitler. The leader of the Nazis', he thought that there should only be one powerful race, which was his race. This was happening during WWII and no one knew that this was happening. That's when Americans found out about this and went to action, the end of the war was the end of the Holocaust. A horrible time period for people like the Jews.
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