2. Genocide is a process that develops in eight
stages that are predictable but not
inexorable (at each stage, preventive
measures can stop it).

3.  Us vs. Them: Groups are divided based on
differences

4.  Symbols forced upon groups to distinguish
them.

5.  Members seen as animals, diseases, non-
human. At this stage, hate propaganda in
print and on hate radios is used to vilify the
victim group.

6.  Trained units or armies to carry out acts of
violence

7.  Using propaganda- either with “us” or with
“them.” Extremists drive the groups apart
and target the moderates, intimidating and
silencing the center.

8.  Victims identified and separated from the
rest of society due to race, ethnicity or
religion

9.  Quickly becomes the mass killing legally
called genocide. It is extermination to the
killers because they do not see the victims
as human.

10.  The 8th stage that always follows a genocide.
Perpetrators deny crimes were committed.

12.  Holocaust: German vs. Jew “
Jews are forced to
carry anti-Semitic
signs.

13.  Holocaust: Jews were forced to wear the
yellow star under Nazi rule

14.  Holocaust: Anti-Semitic posters, children’s
books, radio stations used to implant idea
that Jews are less than human
A page of The Poisonious
Mushroom, an anti-Semitic novel for
children. The page shows children
how to identify a Jew: “The Jewish
nose is crooked at its tip. It looks like
the number 6.”

15.  Holocaust: German police, Jewish police
(that the Nazi’s organized), Gestapo, and
S.S. were used to find, assault, and kill
Jews
A damaged lintel above a Torah ark in a synagogue in Nentershausen.
Synagogues were burned, Jewish homes were looted, and 91 Jews died.
Gestapo, supported by local armed police, arrested approximately 30,000
Jews and deported them to death camps.

16.  Holocaust: Propaganda continues and
increases. Moderates who are most able
to stop the genocide are arrested and
killed
German propaganda
campaign climaxes in the days
leading up to invasion of the
Warsaw.

17.  Holocaust: Jews are segregated into ghettos
and deported into concentration camps
The sealing of the Warsaw
Ghetto in 1939.

18.  Holocaust: concentration camp mass
murders

19.  Holocaust: Perpetrators dug up mass
graves, burned bodies, attempted to
cover up evidence, blamed victims, and
blocked the investigations of the crimes