GENOCIDEMert Oşar

What is genocide?

• Genocide means group killing in Latin.• The word “Genocide”was first used by

Raphael Lemkin, a polish, Jewish legal scholar.• I think the best example for genocide is the

annihilation of Jews, commited by Adolf Hitler.

When was the Jewish genocide?

• The Jewish genocide started before and continued during the World War II.

• It was also known as the “Holocaust”.• Hitler attacked the Jews with a group called

the Nazis.

Why did Hitler start the holocaust?

• Hitler thought that the German people were the superior race on earth.

• He wanted everyone to be German, especially blond and blue-eyed.

• So he started killing the Jews in Germany.• Then he couldn’t stop and caused the death of

six million Jews that lived in Europe.• One-half million gypsies and 250,000 mentally

or physcally disabled people were also killed.

How did Hitler start the holocaust?

• Hitler first gathered the Jews in camps that were told to be concentration camps.

• Then he told them to take a shower.• There he locked them up and gave them

poisonous gas.

In Conclusion…

• The holocaust event perfectly represents the meaning of the word genocide or «ethnic» cleansing.

• I wish something like this never happens again. Peace to all!