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Holocaust and Rwanda Genocides
Summary: A comparison of the Holocaust during World War II and the Rwandan genocide of the 1990s. Both acts of horror were a culmination of deep ethnic tensions and intense political corruption, and both employed propaganda to promote and endorse the party in power and its leader's extreme racist values, as well as to mask the horrifying truth of what was happening.
Propaganda was an elaborate and essential tool used extensively by Hitler and the Nazi's as well as the Hutu's during their terrorizing reign of Germany and throughout Europe and the Hutu's horrific acts of genocide that happened because of a culmination of deep ethnic tensions brewing over a century and intense political corruption. Not only was it used to promote and endorse the party and its leader's extreme racist values but also to mask the horrifying truths of what was to become known as the Holocaust and the Rwanda Genocides.
Anti-Jewish measures and pogroms have taken place numerous times throughout history, but never to the extent and successfulness attained by the Third Reich. A clear reason for this level of success can be attributed significantly to the abundant amounts of misinformation released by the Nazis prior to and during World War II. The degree of importance these public-swaying...
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