Why does Genocide happen?
Genocide is a result of large groups of people having a goal of extermination and an even larger group agreeing to go along with it. When an enormous group of murderous people have a common goal of something, it is easy to acheive it as long as they have the power of pursuasion. By threatening each targeted groups with weapons, violence, and rape in women's case, they were able to seize control of the populations one by one. The Jewish, the Tutsis (Rwanda), Bosnians, Japanese, and many other groups were almost fully exterminated by many groups that threatened them to the point of wanting death on themselves.
The reason genocide happened was because people let it happen. Not many people would stand up for people being hurt because they were afraid of what could happen to them. In some cases, the government was part of the acts of murder because they were trying to gain peace with other countries or prevent further combat. People were often murdered if they tried to stand up for others so it was useless to do anything at all unless there was enough of them; even still that never happened. Many people agreed with the views of Nazis but there was an equal number of people who didn't and were forced to go along or be killed. Genocides were possible because of the strategy and pursuasion of threats that dehumanized the targeted groups.
The blogs I referenced...
Adam's Blog.
Aydan's Blog.
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