The 8 Stages of Genocide - Schindlers List - 1794 Words

Schindler’s List According to Gregory H. Stanton, President of Genocide Watch there is 8 stages of Genocide and in his opinion Genocide is a progress that is developing in the eight stages and which is predictable and not inexorable. At each stage there are possibilities to stop or at least influence Genocide and Oskar Schindler’s deeds are one example of moral courage and active resistance to the worst Genocide in the history of humankind during the Second World War. The following text will deal with evidences of Stanton’s eight stages of Genocide in Steven Spielberg’s film â€Å"Schindler’s List† and Schindler’s attempts to stop Genocide in the different stages. The first stage is the â€Å"Classification† of people by ethnicity and especially†¦show more content†¦At the â€Å"Wannsee Conference†, which took place in Berlin, on January 20, 1942 the German regime with its main protagonists Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler planned the ‘final solution of the Jewish question. Even if massacres of about one million Jews occurred before the plans of the Final Solution, with the decision to eradicate the entire Jewish population, extermination camps were built and industrialized mass slaughter of Jews began in earnest. The scene where a train of Schindler’s workers was wrongly sent to Auschwitz shows such an extermination camp were the Nazis systematically gassed thousands of Jews. Another example for the organized genocide is the mass cremation after the mass execution during the eviction of the ghetto in Krakow. The â€Å"Polarization† drives a certain group apart and segregated them: The Nazis educated the people their raciology and especially in schools the idea that Jews are different and inferior was taught. The â€Å"Nuernberger Gesetzte† 1935 banned marriages between Jews and Non-Jewish persons in order to avoid miscegenation. Jewish people in Poland were not even allowed to live with non-Jews and as the movie shows they were forced to live in Ghettos and afterwards in working or extermination camps. The â€Å"Jewish-race† should live segregated until they were forced to work or getting murdered because in the Nazis