8 stages of genocide
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The Eight Stages of Genocide
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Genocide is a process that develops in eight stages that are predictable but not inexorable (at each stage, preventive measures can stop it).
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ClassificationUs vs. Them: Groups are divided
based on differences
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SymbolizationSymbols forced upon groups to
distinguish them.
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DehumanizationMembers seen as animals, diseases,
non-human. At this stage, hate propaganda in print and on hate radios is used to vilify the victim group.
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OrganizationTrained units or armies to carry out
acts of violence
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PolarizationUsing propaganda- either with “us” or
with “them.” Extremists drive the groups apart and target the moderates, intimidating and silencing the center.
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Identification
Victims identified and separated from the rest of society due to race, ethnicity or religion
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ExterminationQuickly becomes the mass killing
legally called genocide. It is extermination to the killers because they do not see the victims as human.
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DenialThe 8th stage that always follows a
genocide. Perpetrators deny crimes were committed.
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The 8 Stages of Genocide in the Holocaust
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ClassificationHolocaust: German vs. Jew “
Jews are forced tocarry anti-Semitic signs.
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SymbolizationHolocaust: Jews were forced to wear
the yellow star under Nazi rule
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DehumanizationHolocaust: Anti-Semitic posters,
children’s books, radio stations used to implant idea that Jews are less than human
A page of The Poisonious Mushroom, an anti-Semitic novel forchildren. The page shows children how to identify a Jew: “The Jewish nose is crooked at its tip. It looks like the number 6.”
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OrganizationHolocaust: German police, Jewish
police (that the Nazi’s organized), Gestapo, and S.S. were used to find, assault, and kill Jews
A damaged lintel above a Torah ark in a synagogue in Nentershausen. Synagogues were burned, Jewish homes were looted, and 91 Jews died. Gestapo, supported by local armed police, arrested approximately 30,000 Jews and deported them to death camps.
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Polarization
Holocaust: Propaganda continues and increases. Moderates who are most able to stop the genocide are arrested and killed
German propaganda campaign climaxes in the daysleading up to invasion of the Warsaw.
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IdentificationHolocaust: Jews are segregated into
ghettos and deported into concentration camps
The sealing of the Warsaw Ghetto in 1939.
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ExterminationHolocaust: concentration camp mass
murders
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DenialHolocaust: Perpetrators dug up
mass graves, burned bodies, attempted to cover up evidence, blamed victims, and blocked the investigations of the crimes