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A 7 page research paper/essay that discusses the role that was played by ideology, first in the massive genocide conducted by Nazi Germany, and then the role that it played in the genocide in Rwanda. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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Rwandan genocide of the 1990s. Genocide is a specter that haunts modern consciousness, as it is an evil so intense as to be beyond the comprehension of the ordinary individual.
Yet, it was ordinary individuals in both Germany and Rwanda who actually carried out mass murder. Scholars, historians and social scientists continue to ponder how this can occur. The following
discussion of this topic considers the role that was played by ideology, first in the massive genocide conducted by Nazi Germany, and then the role that it played in the
genocide in Rwanda. Germany According to historian Steven T. Katz, a professor of Jewish history at Cornell University and the director of the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, Nazism
inherited "from the Church the notion that Jews were fundamentally alien," but, then, Nazis added the novel ideological element that as an "alien people," they should be "eliminated from the
earth" (Muller). Katz stresses that it is the "unconstrained, ideologically- driven imperative that every Jew be murdered which distinguishes the Shoah (i.e., the Holocaust) from prior and to date subsequent,
however inhumane, acts of collective violence, ethnocide, and mass murder" (Muller). In her book The Nazi Conscience, Claudia Koonz explains the German people were conditioned by propaganda to accept
the notion that Jews were alien people among them and a threat to their perceived way of life. While many teachers resisted instructing their students overtly in anti-Semitism, they were
able to reconcile themselves to racism when it was presented cloaked in scientific terminology. Concepts about "racial hygiene were sold as scientific ways creating a healthier, happier German" people (Popkin
267). In other words, the Nazis utilized the jargon and philosophy of the eugenics movement. The Nazis, by murdering six million Jews, came incredibly close to achieving their goal, as
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