- Classification.
‘Us & them” categorization
- Symbolization.
Swastikas, Yellow Star
- Discrimination.
Deny rights to other groups.
- Dehumanization.
Equate other groups with vermin, diseases or insects.
- Organisation.
By State, militia or paramilitary force.
- Polarisation.
Propaganda that promotes extremism. Laws forbidding intermarriage or social interaction.
- Preparation.
Final solution paradigm.
- Persecution.
Identified and separated.
- Extermination.
Mass Killings aka genocide.
- Denial.
Deny that the crime has been committed. Destroy the evidence. Obfuscate the truth.
Dr Gregory H. Stanton Genocide Watch.