When many people think of the word "genocide", they think of Adolf Hitler's Holocaust. They generally don't think an American leader could stoop so low to do anything close to that. That's why when people hear how Richard Nixon and his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, killed 600,000 Cambodians in the 1969 bombing, they don't believe it. This couldn't be like the Nazi extermination of the Jews, which killed up to 7 million people across Europe from 1933 to 1945, could it? Although the American bombing of Cambodia and the Holocaust had different reasons and methods of killing; this had similar effects on the people who were killed, including in both cases what is called an "office murder". The reasons why the two genocides took place vary greatly because the countries' leaders had different agendas. In an attempt to become a "master race", Jews were targeted by the Nazis through propaganda and the Nuremberg Laws ("Holocaust"). Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party aimed to exterminate the Jews and all other minorities, so they made them outcasts in society so that no one would want them; so that no one would turn a blind eye while he carried out his plans. Hitler said in a speech before World War II that in the coming war he predicted "the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe", implying that he knew something was going to happen or that he was already planning his extermination (Holocaust 30). -31). Nixon, Kissinger and their acquaintances did not intend to wipe the Cambodians off the map; they had completely different reasons. As long as the Vietcong could supply its troops via Cambodia, the United States was not going to gain a foothold in the Vietnam War, so a secret b...... middle of paper ......osevelt, Charles Dukes, William Hodgson, Hernan Santa Cruz, Jon P. Humphrey. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, La. UN News Centre. UN, September 1948. April 16, 2014. Holocaust and other genocides, The. Ed. Smith, Helmut W. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2006. Print. April 16, 2014 “Holocaust: an introductory history, The”. An introductory history of the Holocaust. American-Israeli cooperative enterprise. Internet. April 15, 2014.Model, David. Lying for the Empire: How to Commit War Crimes with a Straight Face. Monroe: Common Courage Press, 2005. Print. April 16, 2014Owen, Taylor and Ben Kiernan. “History: Bombs on Cambodia”. The walrus. Yale University, October 2006. April 15 2014.