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Ohrdruf.” Eisenhower ordered all American XJUI'MPSJEBT4VOTIJOF4UBUF4UBOEBSET It is important for current and future soldiers in the area to view the camp. 'PSJOGPSNBUJPOBCPVUIPXUPSFDFJWFGSFF generations to learn from the past in order to Buchenwald was the next stop for the DMBTTSPPNTFUTPGUIF5BMMBIBTTFF%FNPDSBU preserve the future. generals. Eisenhower described his visit to BOEPUIFSUFBDIJOHNBUFSJBMTGPSZPVSTDIPPMT In 1994, the Florida Legislature passed Buchenwald as follows: “The visual evidence and PSBCPVUCFDPNJOHBOFEVDBUJPOBMTQPOTPSJOH the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty and QBSUOFS QMFBTFDBMM the Holocaust Education Bill (SB 660). The law requires all school districts to incorporate bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me n lessons on the Holocaust as part of public school a bit sick. In one room where there were piled instruction. up 20 or 30 naked men, killed by starvation, George Patton would not even enter. He said Ê/ Ê1 This 4ALLAHASSEE$EMOCRATNewspaper in Education supplement explores the history of he would get sick if he did so. I made the visit 0SJHJOBMMZXSJUUFOCZ+PEJ1VTILJO 4U1FUFSTCVSH5JNFT hate and genocide in the 20th century. This deliberately, in order to be in a position to give 3FEFTJHOBOEOFXNBUFSJBMTFEJUPS$ISZT*WFZ%VODBO publication focuses on the Holocaust, an event first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the that can be deemed the greatest tragedy of the future, there develops a tendency to charge these n 20th century. More than 38-million people died allegations merely to ‘propaganda.’” in World War II; 11-million of those people died The horrors of inhumanity Eisenhower and $3&%*54 as a direct result of Nazi genocidal policy. the rest of the American, British and Russian Hate and intolerance are prevalent in every soldiers saw defines the Holocaust in the $POUSJCVUPST #BSCBSB(PMETUFJO chronicles of history. Six million Jews, along with 3JUB#MBOL society, including America, in small and great millions of others, were targeted by the Nazis 3PCZO#MBOL ways. As you read through this NIE publication, -ZOO(SPTTNBO think about these two issues in your life. Is for destruction, including the Roma (Gypsies), 3PCZO3BDIJO tolerance a learned behavior? Is hate inherent the handicapped, Poles, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Soviet prisoners of war and political (SBQIJD%FTJHO7BMBSJF.BD-FPE 4JS4QFFEZ1SJOUJOH in human beings? What can you do to fight hate and prejudice at school and at home? What can dissidents. The horrific events that took place be done to promote tolerance in society? under Adolf Hitler’s and Heinrich Himmler’s $PQZSJHIU0DUPCFS direction shocked the world. The battle cry that Hope lies in the transformation that can arose was “never again.” And yet, hate and occur in learning. A Holocaust victim’s poetry prejudice continue to rule our world in the 21st depicts the “last butterfly” he saw before his life century. plunged into the darkness of a concentration 5IJTQVCMJDBUJPOJODPSQPSBUFTUIFGPMMPXJOH camp. Learning sheds light, and in that light can Crimes against humanity have continued 4VOTIJOF4UBUF4UBOEBSET come transformation and hope. throughout the world under the leadership of 44"44"44"44" Josef Stalin, Idi Amin, Osama bin Laden, P. W. 44#44#44$44$-"" 5IFIPSSPS Botha, Chiang Kai-Shek, Ngo Dinh Diem, Jean- -"#-""-"#-"$ Generals George Patton, Omar Bradley and Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, Francisco Franco, -"$-"%-"%-"$7"" Dwight Eisenhower arrived in Ohrdruf Nord, Pol Pot, Slobodan Milosevic, Mobutu Sese Seko, )&")&")&#)&# in Germany, on April 12, 1945. What they Manuel Noriega and Augusto Pinochet. 4$'4$)4$) saw shocked them: more than 3,200 naked, %JEZPVLOPX internment camps in the United States. Not only was Adolf Hitler not the last perpetrator of attempting to According to the History Channel Web site, “The relocation of Japanese- eradicate a group of people from society, but also he was not the first. Hatred Americans into internment camps during World War II was one of the most and genocide have been mainstays in the world since the beginning of time. flagrant violations of civil liberties in American history.” According to the The Crusades were some of the bloodiest decades in history. Systematic killings have taken place during the reigns of Caesar, Genghis Khan, Mahmud of Ghazni and King Léopold II, just to name a few. (FOPDJEFJO"NFSJDB Centuries before Europeans set foot on American soil, Native Americans already lived here. When the Europeans arrived in North America, there were probably 10-million Native Americans populating the continent. Historians suggest that the first Native Americans arrived in North America during the last ice age – approximately 20,000- 30,000 years ago. The oldest documented Indian cultures in North America are Sandia (15000 B.C.), Clovis (12000 B.C.) and Folsom (8000 B.C.). When Europeans began arriving in America in the 16th and 17th centuries, Native Americans, who appeared primitive to the Europeans, greeted them. Conflicts arose when the Europeans wanted to take ownership of property and animals that the Native Americans deemed part of the spirit of nature. The Europeans were used to owning land and animals, and so laid claim to them. The conflicts led to the Indian Wars and Indian Removal Act. By 1837, Andrew Jackson’s administration had removed 46,000 Native-American people from their land east of the Mississippi River. Millions of Native Americans lost their lives. 4PVSDF/BUJWF"NFSJDBOToXXXOBUJWFBNFSJDBOTDPN $JWJMJ[JOHUIFOBUJWFTQJSJU In the late 1800s, the United States supported an educational experiment that the government hoped would change the traditions and customs of Native Americans. According to the 5NITED3TATES(OLOCAUST-EMORIAL Library of Congress, “Special boarding schools were created in (SPVQQPSUSBJUPGDIJMETVSWJWPSTPG#VDIFOXBME -USEUM COURTESYOF"ERNICE+RINSKY locations all over the United States with the purpose of ‘civilizing’ American Indian youth. Thousands of Native American children were sent far from their homes to live in these schools and learn the ways census of 1940, 127,000 persons of Japanese ancestry lived in the United of white culture. Many struggled with loneliness and fear away from their States, the majority on the West Coast. tribal homes and familiar customs. 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