2006-11-29 01:27:06 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Genocide.
2006-11-29 01:28:03 · answer #1 · answered by lukesimpleman 2 · 4⤊ 2⤋
What word you use depends on perspective. Genocide is the most prevalent because the mass murder was carried out with the specific intent of eliminating the people(s) targeted: Jews, Romanii (gypsies), homosexuals. Holocaust is the word Jews use because of the specific intent to eliminate *them* completely out. "Ethnic cleansing" is, I suppose, the sort of phrase that the Nazis might have come up with had they been more open about what the Final Solution was going to be over the long run.
2006-11-29 10:59:42 · answer #2 · answered by psyop6 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Genocide or holocaust.
I thought the word genocide was coined for Hitlers massacre of jews/gypsies/homosexuals/others. Turns out it was coined in 1943 to describe lesser known genocides occuring during the 1st world war.
2006-11-29 09:35:13 · answer #3 · answered by Skidoo 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
There's a Hebrew term I like: Shoah, which translates as "catastrophic upheaval," but just means "Holocaust."
Hitler's murder of the Jews is *a* genocide, but *the* Holocaust, or Ha-Shoah. Any other mass-murder is a genocide.
The word "holocaust" means "a complete burning," "genocide" means "race murder."
2006-11-29 09:58:56 · answer #4 · answered by Bryce 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Holocaust.
2006-11-29 09:28:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Genocide
Ethnic cleansing
2006-11-29 09:29:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
genocide
2006-11-29 09:28:37 · answer #7 · answered by chr1 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
genocide
2006-11-29 09:28:08 · answer #8 · answered by newheartin03 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
genocide
2006-11-29 09:28:05 · answer #9 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i like the word
massacre
2006-11-29 09:29:56 · answer #10 · answered by Please Whisper 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋