difference between Holocaust and genocide
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the main difference between the holocaust and the genocide is the holocaust are also known as the shoah while the genocides are the deliberate killing a large group of people.
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The systematic murder of Jews during WWII was not commonly referred to as the Holocaust until the 1970s when a TV mini-series called "The Holocaust" was shown on American network TV. The mini-series was widely viewed and discussed. For many, especially younger people, it was their first real education about the topic. The word 'holocaust' actually means a conflagration, a huge all-consuming fire like you would see inside a big furnace or an out-of-control wildfire in a forest. It was used metaphorically in the title of the series. But the association was so strong that people started using the word to describe the Nazi "Final Solution."
The word 'genocide' has a specific meaning. As defined by the UN genocide convention, it includes any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such:
- Killing members of the group
- Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
- Deliberate infliction on the group the conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
- Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
- Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
For a party to be found guilty of genocide, it had to carry out one of the aforementioned acts with the intent to destroy all or part of one of the groups protected.
The law does not require the extermination of an entire group, only acts committed with the intent to destroy a substantial part. Hussein did not set out to eliminate every Kurd in Iraq. But he set out to destroy the Kurdish insurgency, and the way he chose to accomplish this was to destroy Iraq’s rural Kurdish population.
If the perpetrator does not target a national, ethnic, or religious group as such, then killings would constitute mass homicide, not genocide.
The perpetrator’s motives are irrelevant.
The convention requires action, even when it means interfering in another nation’s internal affairs.
So to commit genocide, it's not enough to oppress a minority. There must be systematic steps taken with the intent of wiping out the group as a whole.
Genocide is the deliberate attempt to destroy an ethnic group or culture, either physically, culturally or both. A holocaust is a sacrifice in which the thing being sacrificed is burned. *The* Holocaust, as we now call it, was an attempted genocide against the Jews and Roma, involving systematic killing and the burning of the bodies of many of the victims.