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The Holocaust was a number of distinct genocides operating in parallel. The definition of a genocide is the intentional extermination of a certain racial, ethnic, religious, physically different, or sexually identified group based on their status in that group. The Holocaust has that in spades. Jews, Romani, homosexuals, handicapped, etc. individuals were targeted precisely because of their being in one group or another. Further to the point, the word genocide was coined precisely to discuss the particular crimes committed in the Holocaust.
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∙ 8y ago
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∙ 9y agoThe question is based on an incorrect assumption. The Holocaust is actually one of the best-known genocides and the one for which the definition of genocide (i.e. the intentional targeting of an ethnic and/or religious group for extermination) was based. Those who say that the Holocaust did not occur or other forms of Holocaust Denial (such as providing numbers less than 300,000 for the amount of the dead or blaming Jewish complicity) are dead wrong and should be laughed out the room just as quickly as a professor who claims that the Roman Empire was a manufactured conspiracy. The evidence in both cases is inordinately common and obvious.
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∙ 11y agoBecause many were killed. All together 11 million people died.
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What is the Holocaust considered as?
Genocide is the answer.
Is the treatment of Native Americans considered a Holocaust?
no, closer to a genocide
Is there anything that might be considered a form of Holocaust?
If you mean a form of genocide, then yes there has been many times. Including the Armenian Genocide
Why did the holocaust experience genocide?
Genocide was the word used to describe what happened in the Holocaust.
Is every genocide a holocaust?
No, the Holocaust is the name of one specific attempted genocide.
What are 3 incidents of genocide?
The Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide and the Armenian genocide.
What are 2 incidents of genocide?
The Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide.
Was the Rwandan genocide a second Holocaust?
"The Holocaust" was the name given to the Jewish genocide after the fact. The Rwandan genocide does not have a specific name, but they are both genocides.
Why is the Holocaust not considered a genocide?
The Holocaust was genocide.-------------------The Holocaust can technically be considered an attempted genocide.During the Holocaust the attempted extermination of various Gyspy tribes was an attempted genocide as some suffered 95% losses.But it is not considered a genocide because no Jewish group was in danger of being completely exterminated, all Jewish groups had representatives in countries not under the Nazi influence and none came nearly as close to extinction as the gypsies.Currently you will generally see them listed together: "Holocaust and Genocide", so as to eliminate the ambiguety of whether the Holocaust is considered a genocide.__________The meaning of a word is its current use, not its etymology. That applies in particular to artificially created terms, which are invented because there is a need for them. The Holocaust of the Jews is considered the classic example of genocide. It was invented in 1943 by the Polish Jewish lawyer Rafael Lemkin for the crime being committed against the Jews at the time."[T]he deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious or national group". (Wikipedia article on Genocide). The suggestion that genocide only occurs if every single member of the taregeted group is killed is pedantic posturing.___________________________________________The Holocaust IS genocide!The word 'Genocide" was created by Raphael Lemkin, a Polish-born jurist who served as an adviser to the U.S. Department of War during World War II, to describe the premeditated effort the Nazis put forth to try and kill all the Jewish. (Webster's Dictionary)So, the whole reason the word was created was to be used to describe the Holocaust.
Can you name three cases of genocide?
The Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide and the Armenian genocide.
What is the difference between a Holocaust and a genocide?
There isn't really any difference, the Holocaust just refers to the genocide of the Jews during WW2, so the Holocaust was a genocide, it just refers to a specific one.
What was the holocaste about?
The Holocaust was the systematic genocide of 8 million Jews. The holocaust was the genocide of over 8 million people.
