8 Stages of Genocide

Question 1

1. Classification

Answer 1

Us verses them based on ethnicity, race, religion, or nationality

Question 2

2. Symbolization

Answer 2

Labeling a group if people which identifies their culture, religion, and/or belief. Does not resolve in genocide unless it leads to de humanization

Question 3

3. Dehumanization

Answer 3

Equating the others with animals, insects or diseases until it overcomes normal human common sense

Question 4

4. Organization

Answer 4

Trained and armed united and militias make plans of genocide

Question 5

6. Polarization

Answer 5

Laws may forbid intermarriage, education, or social interactions within society

Question 6

6. Preparation/Identification

Answer 6

Victims are segregated and deported into concentration camps; where they are starved and forced into labor

Question 7

7. Extermination

Answer 7

Mass killings of dehumanized victims with purpose to exterminate a specific race

Question 8

8. Denial

Answer 8

Et rid if evidence by digging up graves, burn bodies, cover up evidence, force the changing if stories and any indicator if further genocidal massacre