You can't be paranoid enough. Until the trains began running, most Jews in Europe stayed, hoping not to be noticed.
- 1) Classification: Governments begin dividing people into "us" versus "them."
- (2) Symbolization: Governments start forcing "unclean" people to wear symbolic articles of clothing, so they clearly stand out from everyone else.
- (3) Discrimination: Governments use laws and cultural power to deny civil rights to certain people.
- (4) Dehumanization: Governments subtly deny the humanity of discriminated groups by comparing them to animals, vermin, insects, or diseases.
- (5) Organization: The state bureaucracy begins actively designing killing plans for undesirables.
- (7) Preparation: The victims of future mass killing are identified, separated, and forced to wear distinguishing symbols.
- (8) Persecution: Governments begin forcing members of victim groups into special camps.
- (9) Extermination: The massacre begins, and government actors justify their mass murder as a necessary "extermination" of non-humans who deserve to be killed.
- (10) Denial: The brainwashed perpetrators of genocide deny having committed any crimes — blaming their victims for their own murders.
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