IS THE HOLOCAUST UNIQUE?

NATIVE AMERICANS

• The Indian Removal Act then was passed by congress, forcing Indians out of thier land
• Iniadns were forcably rounded up and taken from thier land by the government.
• There was areas set aside for them to stay
• The Indians starved, froze to death, and died of disease, this was known as the trail of tears
• The Creek nation lost 40% of thier population

THE ARMENIANS

• The movment of idnependance developed amoung Christians
• The army and police rounded up all educated Americans then slaughtered them
• They went from village to village and did the same to all able bodied males
• The remaining old men, woman and children were marched on foot for hundreds of miles
• They died of thirst, starvation, and disease. It is estimated over 1.5 million died

HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI

• A atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan by American Airmen on August 6th 1945
• The bomb leveled 90% of the city. A estimated amount of people killed was 140,000
• The second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan on August 9th 1945
• More than 1/3 of the city was destroyed, and over 75,000 people were killed.
• The bomb was used to save thousands of Americans lives and end WWII

"Never before had any state, with all the authority of its responsible leader, decided and announce that it intended to kill of a particular group of human beings, including the old, the women, the children, and the sucklings, as completely as possible, and has then translated this decision into action with every possible power at the states command." -Eberhard Jäckel

"In every case of terrible human destructiveness that we have known,... killing was not a end itself, but the means to a end...But in the murder of European Jews, ends and means were identical." "The German Dictatorship murdered the Jews for the purpose of murdering the Jews. For the Germans took to them selfs the decision as to who was entitled to live on this earth and who was not."

"THAT IS THE UNIQUENESS OF THE HOLOCAUST"