Gausk Genocide Vs Holocausan Genocide

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The word ‘Genocide’ invokes a sense of fear and disturbance in the minds of all. This is so because it reminds us of how the lives of millions of innocent lives were lost and an uncountable number of homes were shattered, all to the power hungry communist leaders who wished to attain purity in society. This is in the case of the two most devastating events, which were acts of pure evil that occurred in modern history, the Holocaust and the Cambodian Genocide. Both the cases have a significant number of similarities whereas at the same time they have their differences. A similarity between them was that both the governments forced their laws on the people and were striving towards a pure society, which means the killing of innocent people. One obvious difference between them was that the Nazi party targeted a particular group of people, the Jewish religion, whereas the Khmer Rouge did not. Although both the genocides have their similarities and their differences, they both show how inhumane mankind can be even with each other.

It is known that the Nazi party and the Khmer Rouge differed in a number of ways. The Nazi party had different types of militia and police forces. Of these the most recognized was the Gestapo. When Gestapo was at its peak, they had around 150,000 informants and agents, where all of them were working to destroy all those who opposed the Nazi party and the Jews (Lerner). The Gestapo were a highly trained police force which consisted young men in their late teens or older. This force was majorly responsible for the gathering and killing of the Jews. And on the other hand, a few time zones ahead in Cambodia, the forces of the Khmer Rouge had an entirely different image. With their most feared leader Pot Pol, th...

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...e dictator being their leader in an undisputed form of government with the lower classes involved in the agricultural segment of the economy. “Hitler declared the farmer as ‘the most important participant’ of the Nazi revolution,”(Kiernan 423). Hitler and Pol Pot shared their views regarding having a pure society with the citizens being a part of an agricultural workforce.

The Holocaust and the Cambodian Genocide were two of the most outrageous events in the timeline of the modern history of the world. Although Hitler focused on eradicating a specific group of people and Pol Pot focused on eliminating the non-productive workforce of the people, they had a number of similarities on their side. Both leaders, to gain control over the people used the power of fear and death. Although both these powers were taken down, they did end up leaving their scars on the world.

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