Genocide

There was more than one group that the Nazi's tried to exterminate and they are:

• Jews
• Jehowah Witness's
• Gypsy's
• Homosexual's
• Handicapped
• Mentally ill

Turkish View

Because they revolted against the government of the county they lived in, the Ottoman empire, and fought alongside the Russians against the Ottomans in WW1.

Armenian View

Not entirely true. Women, children and elderly were killed -not just men. The answer is much too long to discuss here - I suggest you look on websites such as armeniapedia.org and cilicia.org. Actually for over 40 years before the genocide of 1915 there were village massacres which led up to the genocide. Because the rest of the World was tied up in WWI they were not privy to the goings on of the Young Turks who systematically enforced gun control on many armenians who had lived in these cities and towns for millenia, not just centuries - Armenia was a vast nation until the Ottomans invaded in the 1500s. Armenians were peaceful, but wanted to protect her borders which were always in jeapordy because of the location right in the middle of the major trading routes. Eventually the kurds and the turks (all Muslim) wanted control and took what they wanted - much like what the United States did to the Native American people. Since Armenians were 1. Christian and 2. Well off for the most part, an industrious people and alot were in important government positions, the Young Turks decided they needed to get rid of this problem so they could control the land. The problem was: Armenians. One by one, villages throughout western Armenia were eliminated of 1. guns and 2. men. By men, we are talking any boy of the age of 14 and up was taken into either the Turkish army were they were shipped off to death camps, or in some instances just blatantly shot right outside of their front door, in front of their family. In an instant, on one day, April 15; dozens of important Armenian men were taken forcibly to the centers of their towns and either hung or beheaded in front of everyone. A few of these towns held "wedding dances" where they forced the newly widowed women to hold hands and dance in a circle as they were being shot at while their clothes were torn off, to humiliate them even further. The most deaths were caused when all Armenians who lived in Western Armenia were forced to leave everything behind and march for hundreds and hundreds of miles in the desert (Sinai) along the Euphrates River, which within weeks and months was vile with human blood, dead bodies floating and diseases were rampant. Over one and half million Armenians died because the Young Turks used violent criminals as guards for these marches, and they used any type of violent torture they could dream up - as gratitude for their violence they were granted complete pardons for their previous crimes. To this day, not only has there never been any type of restitution on the part of the Turks, they DENY that genocide ever took place. Then, to rub salt into wounds, they destroyed all of our ancient churches, ancient relics and renamed our cities to eliminate any history of Armenia in the 75-80% of the land they took from us, both from the west and from the east. Azerbaijani's were also encouraged by the Muslim Turks to destroy all of the Khachkars on Ancient Armenian land that date back before Christ's birth. On top of all of this, the Turks even laid claim to Mt. Ararat, a national Armenian landmark. When the atrocities were discovered, there were only a few small groups of orphaned children that hadn't been taken in by Turks as slaves or renamed to muslim names to forget their identity. The few surviving women were turned into sex slaves by the muslims and to show they were only "property" by their masters, they were tattoed all over their faces to publically display their shame. As I said, this is only a SMALL portion of what happened. I do encourage you to read about Armenian history, as it is vast and very ancient and extremely interesting. It's just sad that we don't have much of a homeland anymore. From what it was, there is only about 10% left now.

There were three genocides in Ukrainian histiry:

1. 1922-23
2. 1932-33 was the most massive one (10 million people were annihilated)
3. 1946-47

Answer #2:

The famine in Ukraine was not technically a genocide. Even when the Soviet archives was opened, no direct order from Stalin could be found ordering the destruction of Ukrainians as a people. The famine was directed towards Stalin's political enemies- who he defined as 'kulaks'. This translated into any peasant who resisted collectivization of agriculture.

That said, the famine was mostly in the winter of 1932-33. The number of dead range from 3.5 to 10 million people.

It was still a massive crime against humanity, one of the worst of the 20th century.

There are a number of issues which must be understand to respond to the question regarding why world leaders seemingly ignored Hitler's "Final Solution" [Ger. 'Endlosung] regarding the Jews.

To begin with, the leaders did not ignore the plight of the Jews, and most were too well aware of at least some of what was going on despite intense efforts of the Third Reich to hide the mass exterminations of the Jews of Europe. The information regarding what was happening came from several sources:

1. International and National Intelligence Sources

2. Jewish 'watchdog' organizations

3. Journalists and other Media

4. The Red Cross [allowed into several of the camps to report on prisoners]

5. Information transferred by German soldiers and soldiers of Axis and Allied powers

6. References of the German government in the press

7. A few 'escapees' who managed to get back from incarceration in camps such as Auschwitz, along with church/dissident leaders imprisoned for a time who were released

8. Vatican reports including reports of nunciatures (offices of Vatican representation in the countries), and internal letters and reports, as well as 'lobbying' efforts in the US.

9. The convening of several conferences most notably the 'Evian Conference' to discuss the fate and possible resettlement of the Jews or 'political asylum' for some of the Jews.

The Evian Conference, attended by representatives of a number of nations though was not promising: only a few nations were willing to allow a few Jews refuge since many believed that any nation allowing large numbers of Jews to escape would incur the wrath of Hitler, and bring them into a war they did not want to enter. The US would only take about 900 refugees in Safe haven in Oswego, due to the efforts of a photojournalist, Ruth Gruber. The debate about the immigration of the Jews raged in Congress, with only a few advocates such as Senator Claude Pepper, but with an over-representation of German-heritage senators, most were opposed to opening the door to many Jews and some lobbied for complete closure of all immigration.

Costa Rica and Singapore agreed to take refugees but they still had to be able to get to safe haven, a very difficult task since any Jews wishing to leave had to check with their police departments for background checks to leave the country, and most of the police were SS shortly into the war. Even the US does not appear to have been as responsive as one would hope, since early in the war, viewing both the British and Germans as too imperialistic (we were also) the decision had not been made which side to ally with.

Hitler's army (Wehrmacht*) was one of the world's best trained and most systematic, and ruthless armies the world has known. The Reich would first send troops into an area to 'advise' governments and policing efforts, then set up puppet governments of their own people, and then send in troops so that few nations which were overtaken met with much in the form of resistance though many tried, such as the Netherlands, France, and Greece. The Germans did not readily adhere to any international law nor the Geneva Treaty, so there was no appeal when they came into an area, demanding the roundup of Jewish citizens. Hungary initially refused any aid in the endeavor, but the Reich army marched the Jews of Budapest to borders over which they had more control.

One remarkable little nation, Denmark, under King Christian when the Reich came to arrest the Jews, had almost the entire populace put on yellow stars making the Jews more difficult to detect and thwarting the efforts at least for a time.

It was not that the nations ignored Hitler's genocide, but that they were constantly wary of being brought into a war they had no resources to fight, afraid for their own general populations, and unfortunately, the Jews have always suffered from feelings of anti-Semitism in many countries, so that even the knowledge of their plight did not bring help.

There should have been much more help and protest than there was, but individuals, some churches and other agencies worked behind the scene in rescue efforts, but the effect was minimal: attempts to aid the Jews were met with violence against the Jews and those who tried to help, so it was like walking a tightrope to try to save as many lives as possible without making matters worse. This does not excuse the lack of support which could have stopped the war and genocide, but it helps one to understand their reasoning.

By the end of the war, by January of 1945 when Auschwitz was liberated by the Russians, and later when Nordhausen, Dachau and others were liberated by the US, it became clear that the Reich had committed atrocities unheard of in human history against innocent people on the basis of their religion and race.

There is yet one other unfortunate truth: many nations, the US in particular, had contributed to the Nazi war effort early in the war, and some large US corporations had benefitted from slave labor of the Jews, as had some churches. This very sad commentary on why the war against the Jews did not end earlier, is a lesson to be taken into account regarding what is important in the life of a nation.

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*The Wehrmacht was always the name for the German army. When Hitler took over, many SA members joined (brownshirts) and other Nazi party members. All of the soldiers were required to hold party membership and sign loyalty oaths.

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This answer was taken from a news article in the "Oxfam Press Release" dated March 30, 2004.

The genocide was the product of a political movement in Rwanda, rather than as was implied by some at the time, an outpouring of "ancient tribal hatreds". However, the roots of this movement stretch back into the country's history. Historical tensions between the Hutu and Tutsi groups had been exacerbated by the policies of Rwanda's colonial rulers - Germany from the 1890s, then Belgium from the First World War. Both reinforced the Tutsi's position of power within Rwandan society, exacerbating Hutu resentments. Rwanda was Africa's most densely populated nation; ninety per cent of its people are subsistence farmers and competition for land is intense. The majority of the population was illiterate and living in grinding poverty.

When the Hutu majority finally gained power after independence in 1962, many Tutsi fled to neighboring countries such as Uganda, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) and Burundi. Their desire to return to their country became a major political issue in the region. An army of Tutsi exiles called the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) formed in Uganda in 1979 and invaded Rwanda in 1990, sparking a civil war.

In August 1993, the international community backed a power-sharing peace deal between the Rwandan government and the RPF, the "Arusha accords". The agreement paved the way for the deployment of a UN peacekeeping force, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Rwanda, or UNAMIR, which was sent to monitor the ceasefire at the heart of the peace accords. But the warning signs were increasing of imminent violence against the Tutsi. With a concerted propaganda campaign, the Hutu Power movement was able to play on land hunger, lack of education and historical resentment to instill hatred for all Tutsi.

No it wasn't deliberate genocide. After months of bombing cities in Japan, the US issued an ultimatum called the Potsdam Declaration of July 26, 1945 demanding that Japan surrender. The Japanese government ignored this demand. The US dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6; then the second on Nagasaki on August 9. On August 15, Japan announced its surrender and on September 2, 1945 Japan signed an Instrument of Surrender, officially ending the war.

The US's official justification was that it would save many more lives than it cost by ending the war, but most people just wanted the war to end period. The secondary goal was to let it be known that it would be much too costly in lives to wage war in the future and hoped that the atomic bomb would be the ultimate deterrent.

Each night multiple 500 to 1000 plane incendiary bombing raids attacked Japanese cities resulting in similar fatalities per raid as each atomic bomb did! Far more Japanese died each night from these raids than died in the two atomic bombings. Without the atomic bomb, those raids would have continued for more than a year, Japan's population would have been far more than decimated.

• The "Young Turk" government of the Ottoman Empire
• The Armenians were the victims of the Ottoman Turks
• Pontic Greeks and Assyrians were also targeted by the Ottoman Turks