Genocide
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The Holocaust was and still is the biggest crime ever committed in the history of mankind.Additionally it also killed music by killing the talent that produced and created music. Some of the composers and musicians in this blog were killed only because they were Jewish.or because they defied the Nazi rule, for as musicians they
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There are a few definitions of slavery, here are some of them, One is taken from Britannica the other from Mirriam-Webster. “slavery, condition in which one human being was owned by another. A slave was considered by law as property, or chattel, and was deprived of most of the rights ordinarily held by free persons.”
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(Note: This article was originally posted on 2 October 2016.) Rafael Trujillo was a dictator of the Dominican Republic for decades. He was assassinated in 1961. In early 1930, after Dominican President Horacio Vasquez faced revolts and a provisional government had been established, Trujillo named himself a candidate in the new presidential elections. During Trujillo’s
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One key document that reveals the Nazis administrative machinery behind the Holocaust, is the August Frank memorandum, issued on September 26, 1942. Written by SS official August Frank, this memorandum outlines the procedures for handling Jewish property during deportations to extermination camps. While many Nazi documents focused on the mechanics of extermination, Frank’s memorandum offers
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The title is a line from a song by Gary Moore and Phil Lynott, “Out in the Fields.” Although the song has nothing to do with the Holocaust, the particular line I used for this title was a reality for millions. Millions were murdered for no reason other than hate and a warped sense of
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The Farhud, which translates to “violent dispossession,” was a violent pogrom against the Jewish population of Baghdad, Iraq, that occurred on June 1-2, 1941. This tragic event is considered one of the most significant anti-Jewish riots in the Middle East prior to the establishment of the State of Israel. The Farhud took place during World
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On May 20, 1940, the first group of prisoners arrived at Auschwitz: approximately 30 German inmates classified by the SS as “professional criminals.” They had been selected from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin. Less than a month later, on June 14, 728 Polish prisoners were deported by German authorities from a prison in Tarnów,
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The 1943 Bengal Famine, also known as the Great Bengal Famine, was a catastrophic event that resulted in the deaths of an estimated 2 to 3 million people in the Bengal province of British India. This famine was one of the most devastating famines in the region’s history and had profound social, economic, and political
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The Rwandan Genocide, which took place over a horrifying span of 100 days from April 7 to July 19 1994, stands as one of the most brutal and rapid genocides in modern history. An estimated 800,000 to 1 million Tutsi and moderate Hutu were slaughtered in a planned campaign of mass murder orchestrated by the
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