How does the Holocaust compare with other well-documented instances of genocide? Choose an example from those listed below. Research the facts and write a five-paragraph essay comparing and contrasting another instance of genocide with the Nazi Holocaust.

Pol Pot in Cambodia: 1975-1979
Bosnia-Herzegovina: 1992-1995
Rwanda: 1994
Darfur: 2003
In your essay, be sure to:

recount historical facts accurately
cite any outside sources

Explanation:

The Nazi Holocaust of the Jews was history’s most extreme case of genocide. The state-sponsored attempt at total extermination by industrialized murder of unarmed millions in less than five years has few parallels. The wholesale destruction of five to six million Jews and the cataclysmic invasions of most of Europe and the USSR that made it possible required an advanced economy and a heavily-armed modern state. Yet the Nazi killing machine also had a more antiquated power source. It was operated by interlocking ideological levers that celebrated race, history, territory, and cultivation – all notions which may crop up in a range of technological contexts.

These powerful perpetrator preoccupations are also characteristic of other genocides. Common features of genocidal thinking can be identified even in cases that lacked the destructive power of the Holocaust. Indeed their perpetrators’ ideological preoccupations can often be discerned from the early stages of their careers before they come to power or amass the military or organizational apparatus required to carry out genocide. Description of these features common to many cases may help in the prediction and prevention of future genocides.

I will juxtapose Nazi ideology with that of two other genocide perpetrators: the Khmer Rouge rulers of Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, and Rwanda’s Hutu Power regime of 1994. Leaders of all three regimes held visions of the future partly inspired by ancient pasts – mythical and pristine – in which they imagined members of their original, pure, agrarian race, farming once larger territories that contained no Jews, no Vietnamese, and no Tutsis. The perpetrators of genocide against those victim groups shared preoccupations not only with ethnic purity but also with antiquity, agriculture, and expansionism. Genocidal thinking is usually racialist, reactionary, rural, and irredentist.

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