Halocaust

Throughout history, the human rights of certain groups of people have been violated. There have been many causes of these inhumane acts. The actions of the abusers have also varied. Two of the inhumane acts throughout history included the holocaust in Germany and Rwanda.

Throughout the holocaust in Germany there were many human rights violations. In Germany, Hitler believed that Germans were superior over all other races. Hitler believed that Germany should be superior of all Europe and he also believed that the actions by the League of Nations following World War one was causing too much of a problem for Germany. Hitler's plan to have Germans rule over Europe consisted of him gathering all people who were not Germans and putting them into concentration camps. The basic intention of the concentration camps was for none of the people their it to survive. There were many different concentration camps throughout Germany and other countries. Some concentration camps included labor camps where people had to do hard physical labor under inhumane treatments and conditions. Another concentration camp style was the extermination camps where several different people would be put to death. Even though the holocaust was based in Germany most of the Jewish people killed were in Poland where 3,000,000 people died and in the Baltic countries had 228,000 people dead. Some other camps included work camps where people were worked to death building many things like guns that were used during the war. After putting these groups of people in concentration camps, he took their property and sold anything of value to pay for his war to take over Europe. Efforts that were made to deal with the violations of human rights during the holocaust was the Nuremberg Trials. The Nuremberg Trials were carried out to protect human rights to stop another holocaust and 22 people in the Nazi party were tried for crimes against humanity of those who died and of the 22, 11 were given the death penalty, 3 were acquitted, 3 were given life imprisonment and four were given imprisonment ranging from 10 to 20 years. Many of the people being persecuted said they were not guilty because they were just following orders. With the Nuremberg Trails many good laws came, they developed many of international human rights law. The Nuremberg Trials set the way for the trials for genocides in Rwanda.

The cause of the human rights violations during the Rwanda Genocide or holocaust was due to the ethnic conflict between the Hutus and the Tutsis and the swap of power when Belgium left. When Belgium colonists came to Rwanda they noticed two similar groups but separated