Fires Of Hatred Summary
Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Naimark, Norman. Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The President and Fellows of Harvard College, 2001. When asked why I chose this book, I would normally respond with some answer conjured up from the depths of my lying brain. But I’ll be honest; I chose this book because it didn’t have as many pages as the others on the list of approved readings, that way I could read it faster. I would normally talk about how I am really fascinated with the topic so that’s why I chose it, but that would be lying. So I’ll stick to the truth. Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe by Norman M. Naimark is a non-fiction title that explains and deconstructs the ethnic cleansing that has happened in Europe within the twentieth-century. The five incidents of ethnic
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This is the third redundancy seen in ethnic cleansing. The cleansers want to illuminate anything that is a reminder of that nation. They destroy property, cemeteries, statues, and even things written in the language of the nation they are cleansing. Not only are things destroyed but also these people’s possessions and food are taken. What justifies the theft and destruction of property is the nation cleansing believes that the people that they are cleansing are people who have been feeding off of the country they live in and by taking these people’s things is like taking back something stolen from them. But the destruction and theft are not at all pretty. Many people are killed and many towns are destroyed. In some cases, such as the Armenian genocide of Anatolia, they were given their property and possession back (for those still alive) once the cleansing ceased; but these cases were often not seen because of the hatred of each other still burning within these
This is the third redundancy seen in ethnic cleansing. The cleansers want to illuminate anything that is a reminder of that nation. They destroy property, cemeteries, statues, and even things written in the language of the nation they are cleansing. Not only are things destroyed but also these people’s possessions and food are taken. What justifies the theft and destruction of property is the nation cleansing believes that the people that they are cleansing are people who have been feeding off of the country they live in and by taking these people’s things is like taking back something stolen from them. But the destruction and theft are not at all pretty. Many people are killed and many towns are destroyed. In some cases, such as the Armenian genocide of Anatolia, they were given their property and possession back (for those still alive) once the cleansing ceased; but these cases were often not seen because of the hatred of each other still burning within these