Ottoman Turkey fought on the side of the Central Powers (Germany and Austria-Hungary) and against the Entente Powers (Great Britain, France, Russia, and Serbia). TEXT ON SCREEN: World War II and the Holocaust, 1939-1945. General Editors: Omer Bartov, Brown University A. Dirk Moses, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Lasting for four years (between 1975 and 1979), the Cambodian Genocide was an explosion of mass violence that saw between 1.5 and 3 million people killed at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, a communist political group. NARRATOR: As the Nazi regime implemented its long-standing goal of territorial expansion, aggression against Germany’s neighbors initially succeeded without encountering armed resistance. Lasting only five weeks, the conflict had a profound impact on not only the Dakota, but Native Americans across the state. War, following Clausewitz, is the destruction by one armed actor of … The Armenian genocide was closely linked to World War I in the Near East and the Russian Caucasus. The Armenian genocide was the systematic killing and deportation of Armenians by the Turks of the Ottoman Empire. This war has raged intermittently since 1955, making it possibly the longest civil conflict in the world. In contrast to genocide and crimes against humanity, war crimes can be committed against a diversity of victims, either combatants or non-combatants, depending on the type of crime. Hence the continuing relevance of Lemkin’s early formulation of genocide as illegitimate war, and the significance of the common element of destruction in the definitions of war and of genocide. Women are being assaulted, drugged and held hostage in Ethiopia's bloody conflict. Doctors say soldiers are acting with impunity. ... “The year of the Dakota” and employed the term “genocide” in their resolutions. There has been a growing interest in the study of war and genocide, not from a traditional military history perspective, but within the framework of social and cultural history. The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II - between 1941 and 1945 - when Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe’s Jewish population. War and Genocide. In examining one of the defining events of the 20th century, Doris Bergen situates the Holocaust in its historical, political, social, cultural, and military contexts. The Dakota War of 1862 was a brief conflict between the Dakota people of Minnesota and settlers. It continues unabated, mostly outside the focus of diplomacy or the attention of international media, taking a huge and terrible human toll. Mass atrocities and genocide are often perpetrated within the context of war. 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