![]() Not only do perpetrator regimes erode the freedom of the people they are targeting, demonstrating how fragile freedom is, they also restrict the freedoms of others around them, to prevent people from challenging the regime. There is always a set of circumstances which occur, or which are created, to build the climate in which genocide can take place and in which perpetrator regimes can remove the freedoms of those they are targeting. The ten stages of genocide, as identified by Professor Gregory Stanton, demonstrate that genocide never just happens. What is clear is that in every genocide that has taken place, those who are targeted for persecution have had their freedom restricted and removed, before many of them are murdered. Introductionįreedom means different things to different people. – Anne Frank, diary entry, Saturday 20 June, 1942 – reflecting back on May 1940 when the Germans arrived in the Netherlandsĭownload the Theme vision 1. Our freedom was severely restricted by a series of anti-Jewish decrees. That is when the trouble started for the Jews. Image: barbed wire fences at Auschwitz-Birkenau © Chris Jackson / Getty ![]()
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