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"Every genocide leaves a legacy," said Freddy Mutanguha, Country Director of Aegis in Rwanda. A legacy is anything handed down from an ancestor or predecessor. One of the many legacies after a genocide is denial. Genocides contain a legacy of denial of its existence. For example, nations of the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide denies the existence. Denial of these genocides may happen on people from both culminations of the genocide.
The Holocaust was a time in history in which as much as six million Jews were killed during World War II in concentration camps. The word ‘holocaust’ meaning whole burned in Greek was used to describe the genocide lead by the German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in attempt to purify the German race. He viewed the Jews as a group inferior to the Germans and was a threat to their pure race. Despite persecuting them at small numbers before the war, Hitler later developed his final solution of the Holocaust that was a plan to execute them at last. At the end of World War II, his planned failed but large numbers of Jewish people died in concentration camps in ways like the gas chambers. Today eyewitness accounts can be found of the event despite the country’s denial.
The Armenian genocide was mass killing of about one and a half million Armenians perishing in the hands of the Ottomans and the Turkish people. The genocide was led by a group called “Young Turk” government of the Ottoman Empire. The genocide of the Armenians were well planned. At first they were removed from the army and then later killed. After many Armenian leaders were rounded up and killed. Finally, Armenians were called from their homes claiming they were going to be relocated but later sent into concentration camps. While being sent to...

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Armenian National Institute -- The other denied genocides: From Turkey to Guatemala, nations deny worst crimes. (n.d.). Armenian National Institute -- The other denied genocides: From Turkey to Guatemala, nations deny worst crimes. Retrieved March 2, 2014, from http://www.armenian-genocide.org/News.1/current_category.176/
The Holocaust. (n.d.). History.com. Retrieved February 28, 2014, from http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/the-holocaust
FACT SHEET: ARMENIAN GENOCIDE. (n.d.). FACT SHEET: ARMENIAN GENOCIDE. Retrieved March 1, 2014, from http://www.umd.umich.edu/dept/armenian/fa

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