What is unusual (I think) about the Jewish Holocaust is that it wasn’t part of a conquest. Jews were very well integrated into German society, and had never been at war with it. Any other similar cases?
Maybe a more salient example than my integrated Native Americans:
Protestants v. Catholics.
In certain circumstances it was simply war and/or strife.
(“simply”)
But, in situations where both groups were fully native, there were situation where one group would try to eliminate the other through legislation, deportation, and also extermination.
And possibly also “integrated”—my impression is that Jews in Germany were less geographically concentrated, but even if true, that might be reaching for an argument.
I think that within the subset of United States’s aggression against the Native American population, there were many instances where fully integrated people were subsequently persecuted and eliminated. Some of it was at the “frontiers”, yes. But some of it was shopowners, millers, brewers...people who had fully adapted and in fact thrived within the europeanized colonies and later states. This was still happening in the 1950′s and 60′s as well, with the flooding of native lands in the Dakotas, etc, where fully “Americanized” communities were eliminated through forced relocation.
What is unusual (I think) about the Jewish Holocaust is that it wasn’t part of a conquest. Jews were very well integrated into German society, and had never been at war with it. Any other similar cases?
Maybe a more salient example than my integrated Native Americans: Protestants v. Catholics.
In certain circumstances it was simply war and/or strife.
(“simply”)
But, in situations where both groups were fully native, there were situation where one group would try to eliminate the other through legislation, deportation, and also extermination.
Ukrainians and Poles in the U.S.S.R.? I guess it would depend on your definition of “conquest”.
And possibly also “integrated”—my impression is that Jews in Germany were less geographically concentrated, but even if true, that might be reaching for an argument.
I think that within the subset of United States’s aggression against the Native American population, there were many instances where fully integrated people were subsequently persecuted and eliminated. Some of it was at the “frontiers”, yes. But some of it was shopowners, millers, brewers...people who had fully adapted and in fact thrived within the europeanized colonies and later states.
This was still happening in the 1950′s and 60′s as well, with the flooding of native lands in the Dakotas, etc, where fully “Americanized” communities were eliminated through forced relocation.