Compare And Contrast Pol Pot And The Holocaust

In the 20th century, over 5 billion people died. Can you guess how many of them died from a genocide? 262 million people. That is equal to 5% of all of the deaths in the 20th century. The instigators of these genocides torture their captives to death, starve them, and overwork them. Adolf Hitler of the Holocaust and Pol Pot of the Cambodian genocide are prime examples. The Cambodian genocide and the Holocaust were both unforgettable time periods of the world, however, these events differ in intended goal, how he genocides started, and what happened afterwards.

The Holocaust is probably one of the most brutal genocides in history, and Adolf Hitler was a huge part of why the Holocaust was so bad. His intentions were brutal. He wanted to decimate

Pol Pot wanted everything in perfect detail. According to BBC, he wanted Cambodia to be money free, religion free, education free, no healthcare, and no foreign languages. However, Pol Pot did not want to kill everyone. He wanted to murder the middle class, and religious people. Mytholoke.edu said he wanted Cambodia to become an agrarian utopia, or a place where “impure people” were eliminated. Impure to Pol Pot would mean killing middle class people, and religious people. He would make schools obsolete. The genocide started in 1962 when Pol Pot became leader of Communist Party of Kampuchea, where he started planning undercover to take over Cambodia. In 1970, when then leader Norodom Sihanouk was out on vacation, Pol Pot came in with Khmer Rouge. After the U.S. tried to eliminate Norodom Sihanouk, but failed, he joined up with the Khmer Rouge. After 4 years of civil war, Pol Pot successfully took over Cambodia. During that time he overworked, starved and killed millions of middle class people. After the 4 year leadership of Khmer Rouge, Vietnam took over and pushed Khmer Rouge out of the country. Pol Pot and the rest of the surviving Khmer Rouge fled to Thailand, where they fought many mini wars with the Cambodian government. However, in the beginning of the 90s, power was lost and Pol Pot had to abandon. In 1997 he was put under house arrest and then died by heart attack before a trial could happen. Khmer Rouge were very

Their impacts on the world were very severe and are still being felt today. The Cambodian Genocide was very influential on how Cambodia is today. It seems as if that Cambodia is very poor, and still have so much building to do. On CNN it says that Cambodia is an impoverished country, and one of Asia’s poorest. They also said that after the war every young person only knew how to kill and had no way in knowing how to rebuild and restart the country. Even today these people struggle. BY the same coin, The Holocaust was one of the worst genocides to ever happen. People that were even a little related to Hitler or a Nazi have very low self esteem, as if it was them that caused all of it. And Jewish people are feeling the worse of the consequences. Their race was torn apart and nothing can ever happen to change it. The Jewish people were treated so terribly. The people that have died in the genocides are not the only people feeling the pain and consequences. People now are suffering from poverty. Sadness that one of their parents was involved in such a genocide. The Jewish people of now feel less than others even though they aren’t. These times aren’t just sad, they are traumatizing and have effects on people for