Why did no one try to fully exterminate jews in europe before him?
Genocide requires a level of bureaucracy and industrialization.That's why historians generally set the timeline for the term genocide around late 1800.
>>18495751Hadrian?Titus?>In EuropeWell Christians spent a good 900 or so years protecting them while they were killing native European faiths (European pagans), note they never did this to jews though. Quite curious.
>>18495754How did the Hutu do it when they are machete monke?
>>18496057Rwanda is small, and in any case the Rwandans did it at the end of the 20th century, with access to trucks, roads, automatic weapons etc. Most of the killing was done with machetes but it was easier to move in 1994 Rwanda than e.g. in 1694 Rwanda.Pre-industrial genocides usually happened in a small region: the Vendée, Haiti, Circassia, some Punjab cities, etc. Also, a genocide is usually restricted to a single country. Maybe you want to kill the Muslims of Yugoslavia, or the Communists of Indonesia, or the Catholics of England, etc. The Holocaust was a whole new concept because of its methods but also because of its scale. NS Germany tried to end the existence of Jews and Communists not just in Germany but everywhere else: in France, in Belgium, in Austria, in Czechoslovakia, in Greece, in Hungary and so on. That's actually what shocked contemporaries of the Nazis. Had the Nazis only persecuted their own Jews and Communists in Germany, nobody would have cared. It would have been regarded as a harsh internal police action and nothing else; nothing out of the ordinary for the 20th century, let alone the 19th. But the Nazis decided to sperg out all over Europe and actually build factories whose end product was human death.
