As time passed, many people still remember one of the worst Genocide/Holocaust that ever happened, where almost an entire race of people was wiped out. However, there are some people that still believe that this is a good way to make or build a country. Nevertheless, some people are making sure that genocide stops by making a fight against countries that like to practice this way. As this story goes on, some people will experience what prisoners of genocide suffered while this event was taking over their countries.

History

The history of genocide includes four parts that contributed the beginning of the destruction and suffering of people and they are: discrimination, the hate amongst people, concentration camps, and racial discrimination (another country) . As many people say, discrimination is one of the biggest issues that the world is facing right now. It also gave a little push to Hitler, a German leader that tried to change the world by getting rid of the Jewish, to start the Holocaust.

When World War I was over, Germany was blamed for all the damage that the war caused. Hitler, who was still a young boy, was angry with the entire world, and this lead to the hate that he had against the Jews. As he grew up, he began to build a new group in Germany. This group was called the Nazi, one of the biggest groups that gave to the world a big impact of horror. At first, the Nazi was a small group because Germany was having a nice time and had everything from money to food. As time passed, Germany lost the nice era that they were spending because they had to pay the reparation for the war as punishment. When this happened, the Nazi began to take control over Germany promising that they would bring what Germany had lost. As this group was getting bigger, Hitler ordered that the Jewish people were the one to blame because they were the ones cursing Germany. At first, Hitler demanded every company in Germany of not allowing Jewish people to work for them, this would give a warning to Jewish people to get out of Germany. Many Jews were afraid about what was going on in German so some of them returned to their own country, but some of the Jews stayed in Germany because they did not have a place to go. In this way, some Jewish people were isolated with no job and no where to go.

The second part of genocide that contributed was the hate. Some Jew people were still in Germany, and the Germans did not like this at all. As days flew, Germany’s hate was growing against the Jews. Many Germans blamed the Jews just because their dogs died or farmers did not have a great day gathering crops. Many Jews were killed because Germans used rocks as a weapon against them. Germans thought that the Jews were the one cursing the country with all this bad things, and Hitler used this to turn all the people from Germany against Jews that were in their country. As this hate increased, it became something horrible that will lead to the destruction of the Jewish. As Hitler became stronger in Germany, He was planning the elimination of Jews by gathering all the Jews in one point to kill all of them. Hitler spread the word to his men that he wanted all the Jews in one point in every country around Europe almost like a camp, but first they needed to build these places to keep the Jews(Brenda 43). Hitler and his men moved quietly in constructing these buildings, and what is worst of all this is that they hired Jewish people to make these camps. Jews people did not know that they were helping in building these camps that later will be their torture chambers. When the camps were finished, Hitler began the second phase of the tragic event: the gathering of all the Jews people around Europe.

When the second face was running, Hitler ordered to all his men of not saying anything to any Jewish people about the camps and most of all what was going to happen. The German soldiers were the ones assigned to gather all the Jews to these camps. When the soldiers met a colony that had only Jewish people, they constructed something that they called Ghetto. “Ghettos are areas where the Jews were crowded and were given small portion food and medicine and because of this many Jews died (Brenda 43).” In these ghettos, the Jews asked the destination where they were going but no one answered them, many Germans soldier told them that they were about to get a new place to live and to work. The Jews rode a train, where they would be taken to their new place where they could work and live, that is what they thought. Some of the Jews already knew about this horrible plan that was taking place in all Europe. The Jews that knew about this plan tried to warned the others but most of the people did not believe them. The Jews that rode the train, spent days even weeks without having food or something to drink (January 47). Some of the passengers of the train died in these long and terrifying trips to the concentration camps.

The third part the contributed with the holocaust was the concentration camps. As Jews arrived to these camps, many of them thought that they would finally rest in that place that they were promise but they did not have an idea of what would happen there. They were aligned in two groups men and women, in this way the SS officers (men that were in charge of the concentration camps) would decide who would be the ones that will stay in the camps and the ones that would die right away. The SS officers made their decisions by choosing from all the people that were 18 or older, were in top physical, had experience in doing something like cook, repair anything, and even music. Now that the SS officers knew who were the chosen ones to die or to run the camp separated the Jews to their next destinations.

The Jews that were chose to die were lead to a far away place where nobody will hear them screaming for mercy. When the Jews arrived this place, the SS officers asked them or forced them to get naked; they told the Jews that they were just having a health check. Some of them Jews believed the SS officers, but they were always some that knew what was going to happen to them when they entered the big chamber. Those people that knew almost always tried to make a run to escape this horrible time, but it also lead to their death because if they were not shoot down then they were chase by dogs. After all the people entered the chamber, the SS officers shut down the doors and they let a poisonous gas take over the entire chamber. When the horrifying scene was over the SS officer sucked poisonous gas from the chamber to pick up the bodies of the Jews that died in this action. The bodies were taken to a place where they would be burnt where the same Jews worked placing the bodies in the crematory chamber.

As for the second group of Jews, they were lead to the camps where most of the Jews called Death Camps. They called it Death camps because they had to work to survive, and if they did a mistake or insulted one of the SS officer they could get killed. Many of the Jews that worked there were always afraid of doing something that would upset the SS officers. “A prisoner of one camp was begging for the life of his father when he heard that he was coming to his camp. The prisoner begged for his father to be accepted at the camp, but there was a problem his father was too old to be accepted and the SS officers didn’t want him because of this. The prisoner instead begged to give his father his last meal before he died, the prisoner’s wished came true” (January 53). This was a small example of how Jews had to deal in the camps. Every week or two weeks a health check out happened in the camps to make sure who were the ones in top conditions and who were ready to die. The prisoners ran naked through out the entire camp, the SS officers did this to check their physical conditions, after this doctors checked the prisoners to make sure they were not sick or had some kind of problem with their body. If the doctors found something bad on a prisoner, they would write down the prisoner’s number and send the prisoner to the gas chamber.

Many prisoner tried to break out, but the camps was so secure for those people that wanted to break in or out. In some of the camps, the prisoners were tired of how they were treated and they boycotted against the Nazis. In most of the camps, the majority of the prisoners died fighting against the Nazis but there were always some people that survive these confronts. The survivors of this fight always joined armies that fought Germany in World War II.

The fourth and last contribution that creates a genocide is different opinion about racial discrimination. A genocide that happened that include racial discrimination was the genocide in Cambodia. Khmer Rouge wanted to make a new Cambodia by kicking out all the people who were not born there. Khmer Rouge chose the people by judging on the religion. He first did not want any Vietnamese in Cambodia, so he told all the Vietnamese to get out of the country before it was too late. He also banned all kind of language in the country, and it was only legal to talk in any language just for him. After this he decided to ban all the Chinese from Cambodia as well. For those people that did not leave the country, they were punish to do something against their religion, for example “A little group of Muslim were forced to eat pork something against their religion (Nasso 78). This punishment was also follow by killing the people, and their bodies were thrown in a river.

Social Impact

The Holocaust had a big effect on the world, the economy of many countries went down because of the war, the Jew community was almost destroyed, and many people died. The economy of the world went down because many countries had to buy weapons, food, supplies, and pay the doctors that were attending the soldiers that were badly hurt. The Jewish community almost disappeared because they were killed in a fast rate. 4,515,000 Jews were killed in only seven concentration camps just think of the others camps that were spread across Europe (Austin). The Nazis used a gas that took almost over 20-30 minutes to kill all the people in the chamber, but as time progressed they discovered so many ways to kill the Jews in less time. They began using carbon monoxide, a gas which only takes about 10-15 minutes to kill someone, that gave a really help to the Nazis to kill more Jews in one day. “The estimation of killed that the Nazis dealt with every day is around 170, 000 to 360,000 men, women, and children” (Austin).

Prevention

Genocide gave a lot of problems around the world, so many people are trying to put an end to this by creating groups, choosing the government that will fight back against this cruel act, and so much more. People are now creating groups that will help countries that do not have enough money to buy food, or fight virus that are taking over the people. Theses groups also are trying to stop the discrimination that some people are suffering, some hate that a group of people has against the other, and the religion issues. Organizations like this can be found almost every where in the world. They do not care how hard the help that they want to bring will cost, but how the actions that they are doing are some good results. If these organizations don’t have the money to help the people that are in really need, they make foundations that will attract a lot of people to give them money or spend it

As for the government, almost all the countries around the world have the same procedure of choosing president. By following this method people are avoiding the problems that they don’t want like if they don’t want somebody that makes changes that will hurt the citizen. Now with this out of the way, many people can feel safer because they don’t have to worry about the decision of the nation made by someone that the entire country don’t know.

In conclusion, genocide is one of the worst thing that can happen again. Even if they have different kind of purpose, they always lead to the same result: the death of many people. Many people will suffer from it because another person want to reach that goal that he/she has in mind. Not only a certain kind of people suffer, but the entire world we need help from each others.