Throughout the history of the world, many manifestations have occurred that have led to horrific behavior. In 1981, Todd Strasser wrote a fictionalized novel known as The Wave, based on a real-life event related to an experiment. This experiment, conducted in 1969 by Ron Jones in Palo Alto, California, demonstrates how fascism can effortlessly corrupt people. This experiment begins with a student's question about the Holocaust that Jones cannot answer. The Holocaust was a horrific event that occurred from 1933 to 1945. This atrocity was initiated by Adolf Hitler, who tortured and murdered over eleven million Jews in death camps. Today the Holocaust is considered "genocide," a word first coined in 1944 by a lawyer named Raphael Lemkin. Genocide is “the deliberate killing of people who belong to a particular racial, political, or cultural group” (“Genocide”). Genocide is highlighted through the ideas of fascism and hunger for power and is caused by pure hatred towards a specific group. After the millions of lives lost in the Holocaust, the world claimed that genocide would “never happen again.” However, nations around the world have not kept those supposed “promises.” Over the past sixty-five years, more than a dozen known genocides have occurred. Rwanda, Bosnia, Cambodia and Africa are just a few examples of the atrocities brought about by the genocide; countless deaths and innocent lives lost and forgotten are horrible effects that become useless in the big picture of our being human. No one should have the authority to kill others because they believe they have power over them and this is exactly what the best Schutzstaffel soldiers did during the Holocaust. Individuals, in direct correlation with the genocide,... middle of paper... ...uston. 2013. Web. 20 February 2014. “Holocaust”. Europe since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction. World history in context. 2006. Network. February 20, 2014.Jones, Ron. “The third wave”. The quarterly CoEvolution. March 1976. Libcom.org. Web February 23, 2014Sanford, Victoria. “Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala.” United States: Palgrave Macmillian, 2003. Print.Schirmer, Jennifer. “Efrain Rios Montt.” Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. Biography in context. 2005. Network. 20 February 2014. “The SS and the Holocaust”. Holocaust Encyclopedia. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 2013. Web. 20 February 2014. Strass, Todd. The Wave. New York: Dell Publishing, 2005. Print. Worse than war. Narr. Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. prod. Jay Sanderson, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen and Stephen Segaller. WNET.org and JTN Productions. PBS. April 2010.Film.